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[Rick Potter]

I live right beside I-210, it is adjacent to my back yard. It is depressed about 30' with about 30-40' from the edge to my back fence, which is a 16' high block wall installed by the State of CA. This block wall is also on top of a 3' berm. Still with me? What I am trying to say is that the freeway is over a 19' high wall, with 30-40' distance, and a 30' drop.

About every two months or so, we hear a loud bang when someone has a tire blow out. Today was different. We were standing in our back yard about 30' inboard of that block wall when we heard a really loud bang, and a few seconds later a 1 1/2 x 2" square of truck tire tread landed at our feet. That's at least 60' of horizontal flight, and about 50' of height.

Consider this my application for the worlds record blowout.

Rick Potter

[Harvey M. Taylor]

WHOOOOWEE that was a close one. hope your nerves are still under cxontrol. Max

[Biff Johnson]

Hmmm, time for a flag pole in the backyard proclaiming "Don't tread on me!"

[Rod Sheridan]

Glad to hear it wasn't the rim.................Regards, Rod.

[Chris Damm]

I was behind a semi hauling steel coils when the 2 rear left tires exploded. Thank heavens in happened when it did and not a few seconds later as I was passing the truck!. It sounded like a 10ga. shotgun and there was rubber flying all over the place. It closed down I894 for a couple of hours.

[Michael Weber]

WOW. I assume this was a retread? Or do original tires on semi's also explode like that?

[Jerome Stanek]

All tires have the potential to explode. When they first mount them and inflate Truck tires is very dangerous that is why they use a cage.

[Rick Potter]

This one was probably a retread, the piece was all rubber with tread on it. My son runs three gravel trucks, he always puts retreads on the trailer and new ones on the drive and steer wheels. It is very commonly done.

Rick Potter

[Kevin Bourque]

A few years ago I was driving on the highway when a semi in front of me had a blowout. It sounded like a cannon was fired in my ear.

[Stephen Tashiro]

A truck driver told me that the pieces of shredded truck tires you see on the highway are usually not the result of retreads disintegrating. He said they are most often caused by brake malfunctions on trailers (like a break in the air line) that cause the brakes to lock. This destroys the tires and It can also cause a fire.