Seen something today that kinda blew my mind - driving on a blown tire

I was doing my normal 62 in a 70 and had a truck pass me and when he was about 1/4 mile ahead of me i heard a big boom (i swear i felt my truck shake) then i saw that he was laying a gator mine field in the road in front of me. there was no other traffic around so i had plenty of time to chose my path through the mine field and get in the left lane as he pulled off on the shoulder. I could see that he blew a drive as i went by. Less than 5 miles down the road that same truck was passing me again with what was left of his drive tire flopping around. Im not sure how fast he was running to catch back up to me that fast after stopping on the shoulder.

I guess he had to get to where he was going.

 

If you keep posting things like this on public forums it will not take long for someone from comifornia to pass a law that you must wear body armor to ride a bike and you know it will only take a few years before the other states start to do the same.

 

The only time I welcome a blowout is when I'm changing lanes and some impatient ####### in a 4 wheeler starts to pass when I'm still in the left lane!

 

dude, once it blows, its pretty over, maybe be a small piece or two, what ia advocate is slowing down, putting on the fourways and limping along, not driving like a bat out of hell.

theres a difference if ya can understand that , you need some counseling .

and its like a lot of things, riding a bike a certain amount of risk comes with it

 

Wow bud, lighten up. No one is suggesting doing anything dangerous here. What Skateboardman said is pretty much how it is 90 percent of the time when a cap lets go. Its usually done and over with unless the tread gets caught up in a fender on a tanker or something. Nothing wrong with limping it along in the right lane to the nearest repair center. Another thing to consider if you pull over imediately is did you ever notice when people are cruising along in there cars in there half dazed trance and they notice a vehicle pulled over on the side of the road it draws there attention directly to the broken down vehicle and not noticing what might be lying in there lane? Go on ahead and operate in your safe manner but no need to put down people who have been out here for a bit. Its getting a little discourageing seeing what these mega carrier safety programs are breeding.

 

If that's the way you see it, that's the way you should do it and I sincerely hope you never have to wake up every morning regretting that you were responsible for someones death. As for me, I will continue to do it the way I have done it for 36 years and that I know has worked for me. Good Luck. The state of TN has a law, which I think is a Good Law, called Comparative Negligence. While you may not get charged for a crime by criminal law, you could still be held liable at least by some percentage by Tort Law. I think this is an Excellent Law because it puts the blame right where the blame should be.

If it is found, in a Court of Law, that 98% (or even 51% for that matter) of the reason a person is dead is because a "Professional Driver" (and that's the key here-truckers are held to that standard in court) parked his truck in a place he should not have parked it, obviously, you have just lost the case.

 

I will slow down, put my four ways on and limp my way to somewhere I can get the tire fixed or the next available rest area. I will not park my truck somewhere it puts everyone else at risk, myself at risk, or the tire guy who may have to come out to repair my rig at risk. Law be ######! To me, safety trumps the law.

 

you got some common sense, some are just scared of little alligators