Girlfriend almost died tonight...

[Mackie2k]

So I'm out at a friends watching UFC, and I get a call from girlfriend.

She's frantic and crying, I can barely understand her. After calming her down, she explains how she was driving on 405 south (seattle area) and a truck with 2 rims w/tires on a trailer in front of her.

Luckily, she wasn't driving to close to him.

Suddenly, the truck hit a pot hole and one of the Tires jumps up and off the trailer. It bounces on the road between her car and the trailer and goes a few inches over her beetle on the drivers side.

At the size of rim and tire she described, it probably would've killed her instantly at 65+ miles per hour coming through the windshield.

She called the state police and lodged a complaint and proceeded to follow this asshat on the freeway (much farther back) and watched as the other tire/rim flew off the back of his trailer.

She hopes the police got him, and in our state it's now a gross misdemeanor (essentially the same as a DUI) to not secure your load/cargo after this incident:

http://www.mariasmiracle.com/

Please make sure to properly secure anything you transport, it could mean someone's life.

 

[tasmanian]

Damn sucks he lost the two tires.

 

[RedArmy]

I always make sure to secure my load.

 

[dawp]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Damn sucks he lost the two tires.

It would have sucked even more if the tires would have hit her. He deserves to lose the tires for not securing them.

 

[mugs]

It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: dawp

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Damn sucks he lost the two tires.

It would have sucked even more if the tires would have hit her. He deserves to lose the tires for not securing them.

Did you hear the one about the airplane?
Ah forget it... it's over your head.

WHOOOOSH

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: RedArmy
I always make sure to secure my load.

Wrap that puppy up.

 

[BoomerD]

Hell, if people didn't lose junk on the freeways and highways, Olds and his crews wouldn't have much to do for most of the year...

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: mugs
It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

True, but it could still block the windshield and make her crash.

 

[pstylesss]

geez. Someone was killed or almost killed not that long ago by unsecured cargo in the Seattle area (I believe it was on I-5 somewhere). I'm glad your girlfriend is okay and I didn't hear your story on the news. Hope they nab the guy.

 

[HannibalX]

Always keep a safe following distance. Most states require a 4 second following distance at highway speeds. To many people are impatient and tailgate thinking this will somehow get them to their destination faster.

 

[Eomer of Aldburg]

Dang..... sorry to hear about that. live over in Redmond so close to 405.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: iFX
Always keep a safe following distance. Most states require a 4 second following distance at highway speeds. To many people are impatient and tailgate thinking this will somehow get them to their destination faster.

4 seconds won't help you from flying wheels off the back of a truck.

A guy I know had a bathtub in the bed of his truck which went flying on a busy freeway.. not the smartest guy. fortunately didn't hit anyone

 

[Mackie2k]

Originally posted by: mugs
It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

Are you really that dumb?

How bout this, meet me on the freeway, and I will throw a rim with a tire on it at your car when are traveling 70 MPH.

If will easily come through your windshield. Go read the case I put in my original post.

If something comes off your car, it loses alot of speed and you are essentially driving through it.

If it was only going 10mph slower, it would've taken like 3 seconds to go over her car, which it didnt, it took like 1 second.

 

[herrjimbo]

what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: Mackie2k

Originally posted by: mugs
It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

Are you really that dumb?

How bout this, meet me on the freeway, and I will throw a rim with a tire on it at your car when are traveling 70 MPH.

If will easily come through your windshield. Go read the case I put in my original post.

If something comes off your car, it loses alot of speed and you are essentially driving through it.

If it was only going 10mph slower, it would've taken like 3 seconds to go over her car, which it didnt, it took like 1 second.

inertia. things don't go from 65->0 in a split second. If it had enough time to slow to near zero, there'd have been enough time to avoid it.

beetle is what.. 4m long.
So taking your 1 second, thats 4m/s, = ~14km/h, so approx 10mph difference.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: Mackie2k

Originally posted by: mugs
It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

Are you really that dumb?

How bout this, meet me on the freeway, and I will throw a rim with a tire on it at your car when are traveling 70 MPH.

If will easily come through your windshield. Go read the case I put in my original post.

If something comes off your car, it loses alot of speed and you are essentially driving through it.

If it was only going 10mph slower, it would've taken like 3 seconds to go over her car, which it didnt, it took like 1 second.

inertia. things don't go from 65->0 in a split second. If it had enough time to slow to near zero, there'd have been enough time to avoid it.

beetle is what.. 4m long.
So taking your 1 second, thats 4m/s, = ~14km/h, so approx 10mph difference.

Except if it flew off it is incoming, so 60mph tire colliding with a 70mph beetle is bad however you slice it.

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, we'd all be mighty pissed if a wheel and tire landed on our car at pretty much any speed.

It could easily scare any driver into a much worse incident. Particularly if it hits your windshield.

Most people would think it was going to come through...if the thought of a wheel coming through your windshield on the highway doesn't scare you, you're a better man than me.

Since it bounced first, it could have lost a lot of speed, so the speed difference might have been more than some folks think.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

The wheel is a big metal wheel that the tire covers and attaches to the axle. The rim covers the wheel.

 

[Riceninja]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: Mackie2k

Originally posted by: mugs
It was a wheel and a tire. Not a rim and a tire. If it was just a rim and a tire, there would be no way to attach it to a vehicle. I doubt it would have injured her. The tire would have been traveling at nearly the same speed as her car. It wouldn't have been a 65+ mph collision, it would have been more like a 10 mph collision.

Are you really that dumb?

How bout this, meet me on the freeway, and I will throw a rim with a tire on it at your car when are traveling 70 MPH.

If will easily come through your windshield. Go read the case I put in my original post.

If something comes off your car, it loses alot of speed and you are essentially driving through it.

If it was only going 10mph slower, it would've taken like 3 seconds to go over her car, which it didnt, it took like 1 second.

inertia. things don't go from 65->0 in a split second. If it had enough time to slow to near zero, there'd have been enough time to avoid it.

beetle is what.. 4m long.
So taking your 1 second, thats 4m/s, = ~14km/h, so approx 10mph difference.

Except if it flew off it is incoming, so 60mph tire colliding with a 70mph beetle is bad however you slice it.

that makes no sense, because the tire isn't going backwards at 60 mph the moment it fell off the truck. if it was bouncing (meaning it was dropped on the tire side, not the flat side) it had to be bouncing forward, most likely between 40-60 mph.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

The wheel is a big metal wheel that the tire covers and attaches to the axle. The rim covers the wheel.

err... that's a hubcap. not a rim.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

The wheel is a big metal wheel that the tire covers and attaches to the axle. The rim covers the wheel.

err... that's a hubcap. not a rim.[/quote]

tire

rim

hubcap

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

The wheel is a big metal wheel that the tire covers and attaches to the axle. The rim covers the wheel.

err... that's a hubcap. not a rim.

tire

rim

hubcap

i'm really hoping you copy and pasted me or that's creepy as hell

 

[Mackie2k]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: herrjimbo
what's the difference between a "wheel and a tire" and a "rim and a tire"?
methinks it's the same thing.

The wheel is a big metal wheel that the tire covers and attaches to the axle. The rim covers the wheel.

err... that's a hubcap. not a rim.

tire

rim

hubcap

i'm really hoping you copy and pasted me or that's creepy as hell

Yea, Rim and Tire with Tire Mounted....not a tire and hubcab.

So a 30+lb Tire/Rim combo comes off a truck moving 70, hits the ground hard enough to bounce over the beetle.....I'm pretty sure it would've made it's way through the windshield or even far enough to impact her ability to drive and possible causing a deadly accident.

I love how some people on Anandtech like to analyze and tear apart something. Please, just quit trolling and get a life.

How bout this, anyone who doesn't think that the tire/rim will be dangerous, swing on over to seattle and we'll go to the track and I'll dump a rim/tire on your car at high speed and we'll see what happens.

 

[alkemyst]

the rim/wheel people above are probably like an ex-coworker that used to always correct 'scotch tape' and something else I forget as "we don't use the brand names here"