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   From: JRStern@foobar.invalid   
      
   On 22 Jan 2014 02:23:02 GMT, "John F. Eldredge"    
   wrote:   
      
   >>>> It's also quite rare these days to see a wheel come off.   
   ...   
   >I have seen a truck wheel come off on the Interstate, probably because   
   >the nuts had sheared or come loose.  It went bouncing across the road,   
   >including the far side, going up about 15 feet into the air on each   
   >bounce.  Fortunately, it didn't hit anyone.   
      
   Yup, me too.  I was a kid in the back seat, driving northbound up   
   Route 99 in California near Bakersfield.  Big, huge truck tire comes   
   bounding at us from the southbound side, big high bounces and easily   
   100mph speed differential, could have crushed any passenger car of the   
   time, passed maybe fifty yards in front of us and bounced off to the   
   right and behind us, I didn't see anyone hit but also didn't see where   
   it stopped.   
      
   But that's the only one I recall in a lot of years and a lot of cars,   
   fwiw.   
      
   J.   
      
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