Rear Facing Camera Catches Cement Truck Tire Blowout & Layover

And the "Just dumb luck" award for today
goes to the driver of that black car,
almost going to pass this cement truck,
and would have gotten swept up in this chaos.
He even missed the massive rubber tread chunk.
Be safe out there!

 

wow

That shows just how fast it can all go bad.

 

Sad thing is at the 5 second mark you can see black streeks on the pavement before he goes off the road hard. So looks like he may have stomped the brake by reflex. Sadly that also means a high chance some office critter or insurance agent reviewing the vid will put 100% of the fault on him. Moreso if he has a recorder in the truck showing him doing it.

 

Looks like a bottom dump more than a cement truck, cement is normally carried in pnuematic taks not bins. but you never know.

 

Front blowouts srethe worst place possible. Now lets hear it from the I don't need to pre and post trip my equipment. Bad part a tire separation may not be visbile, probably bounces it off curbs in the plant. Theres alway a reason.

 

worst front tire blowout I personally had was a Triumph Trident 30 yrs. ago.
Doing about 60 around a corner and it let loose, lock to lock 4 times,
standing on the rear brake - somehow kept it upright? WTF?
The saving grace was Triumph design had 3 clamps holding the tire on rim.
If you look at Triumph rim there are 3 bolts spaced 120 deg. apart.
Otherwise I would have been a goner. Guy up the street came outside
and said "He saw the whole thing from my front picture window.
Man, can you ride!" Felt pretty good for an almost dead guy.