Scary thing that just happened to me on my way home, but ended up in good hands...
Driving on the freeway, I noticed something was wrong with my tire. I got out and checked all 4, but didn?t notice anything, got back onto the freeway. About 2 minutes later driving in the middle lane of a 5 lane freeway my rear driver side tire explodes and my car started swerving, but I luckily kept control and pulled off to the shoulder. I get out expecting just a flat, but instead my tire is ripped off the rim.
So I'm stuck there on the shoulder of a pretty busy freeway, and it being rush hour time and all, people are doing 80mph in the slow lane. I got back in my car and waited for the cars to die down. I've seen a lot of cop videos where the officer gets clipped from an oncoming car and the thought of that scared the crap out of me. As I'm waiting in my car, a tow truck driver pulls up from behind me and I?m thinking maybe he's mistaking me for somebody else because I don?t need my car towed. He gets out and offers to help. Within 5 minutes, he jacked up my car, took off my rim and put on the spare. I offered to pay him, but he said "free of charge". A bad day turned into a good day. Maybe that tow truck guy was an angel.
Btw, here's the aftermath of my tires.
