The wheel came off a Jeep, off the axle, not a "spare" -- bounced down the highway about a half mile, gaining speed and altitude. Then though my roof while I was driving about 60 mph.





We think we have a claim for "negligence."

did you notice immediately, or realize after a while?

hope nobody was hurt.

You should have zigged when it zagged....hope your O.K.

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Originally posted by daniel77:
did you notice immediately, or realize after a while?

hope nobody was hurt.

When I first saw the wheel, it was about 80 ft. in the air and dropping toward me. I thought it missed me, because it disappeared behind the upper edge of the windshield -- whereupon it came though the roof.

Really loud.

Stopped the car from impact.

I wasn't injured other than some superficial cuts on my right hand where I was holding the steering wheel.

My initial reaction was, "Oh hey! The engine is still running. I can drive to my appointment."

-- Yeah, right. Totaled the car. Doctor in the ER can't believe I wasn't killed.

must have been coming down a helluva hill to be gaining that kind of altitude. Is God sending you a message?

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Originally posted by daniel77:
must have been coming down a helluva hill to be gaining that kind of altitude. Is God sending you a message?

Yeah, coming off Hwy 26 in Portland "West Hills." My guess is that it dropped down about 500 ft. Bouncing off pavement, off retaining walls.

When I first saw it in the air, I thought it'd come off a plane.

Only looking at the uppper photo recently have I noticed that the impact pulled the door/windshield pillars away from the doors on both sides.

Glad you're ok

I hate it when that happens.

That thing moms always say about always wearing clean underwear in case you have to go to the hospital, Would it have mattered what you started out with on that day?

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Originally posted by Wm.S.Ladd:
We think we have a claim for "negligence."

Hey Billy, that's the American way. Good for you! No such thing as an accident or Act of God anymore. Make sure your lawyer lists your shit-stained skivvies as totaled.

holy flok - thank god that you're still around

Wm.

You are lucky.
Glad you are OK.

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Originally posted by onefunzr2:

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Originally posted by Wm.S.Ladd:
We think we have a claim for "negligence."

Hey Billy, that's the American way. Good for you! No such thing as an accident or Act of God anymore. Make sure your lawyer lists your shit-stained skivvies as totaled.

Let me drop a locomotive on your house and see where you stand in terms of litigation.

Perhaps it's just me, but when I read 'negligence' it seemed that you were gunning for more than repairing or replacing the damages. Like $$$ signs were dancing in your eyeballs. Retribution with a Snidley Whiplash-like flavor. Was I wrong?

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Originally posted by Wm.S.Ladd:
The wheel came off a Jeep, off the axle, not a "spare" -- bounced down the highway about a half mile, gaining speed and altitude. Then though my roof while I was driving about 60 mph.





We think we have a claim for "negligence."

Must not have been as bad as it looks.....I notice only glass on the drivers seat, no stains that I can see and no pinch marks either.

Lemme drop one of these on the roof of your ZR2 and get back with me, ok?

Rich
preaching responsibility for your actions, even here it is occasionally a foreign concept to some.

Guy killed near Toronto yesterday when a piece of metal "about the size of a license plate" smashed through the windshield while he was doing about 60 mph. They don't know whether it fell of a truck hauling scrap, or whether it was laying on the road and got thrown up.

In either case, it was likely a lot lighter (and certainly smaller) than a tire off a jeep. I'd say you got off pretty lucky. And I don't think tires just "accidentally" fall of vehicles without warning. Most would hear the bearings going long before that could happen. "Negligence" sounds about right to me.

Whoa! Glad you came out OK.

One of my coworkers investigated a fatallity several years ago where a wheel off of an 18 wheeler killed a passenger in a car. The driver of the truck didn't even know when or where he lost the tire.

Myself, I watched the hood off of a junked car being carried down the interstate on a flatbed trailer fly off, land in front of my car, bounce OVER my car and land under the truck behind me. Serious case of the Willies after that.

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Doctor in the ER can't believe I wasn't killed.

Neither can I.

Maybe somebody from the political forum is gunning for liberals with jeep tires?