Over a recent weekend I drove several hundred miles on the Interstate system. On Friday, I saw a vehicle flipped upside down in the median. Since there were no emergency responders on the scene, I stopped to try to help. When I got to where the vehicle was, volunteers were already helping the driver out of a back door window. She was dazed but not injured and told us the accident was due to a blowout (which is a rapid loss of air in a tire). I checked and there was a shredded tire on the rear of her vehicle.
The next day I was again traveling on the Interstate and saw a vehicle ahead of me swerve violently and then run into the grassy median and completely roll over. Remarkably, it ended right-side-up and out jumped 5 or 6 people, many of whom were injured (none critical but still requiring emergency assistance). About a dozen people, including several ER nurses, immediately stopped to provide assistance. One of the injured passengers told us that they had experienced a blowout that caused the wreck.
I checked their vehicle and saw a shredded tire on the rear as well. Sadly, unlike the tire from the other wreck mentioned above, the tires on this vehicle were badly worn and should not have been driven. They should have been replaced weeks ago. Driving on tires with more tread life would likely have prevented that accident.
It was seeing the impact of these worn tires that brings me to the main point for this article: [click to continue…]
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