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Old 07-13-2011, 11:14 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by formare View Post
It's not the flat ones you gotta worry about - it's the curly ones. Or worse the flat ones that are kicked up and onto the cars behind them... Or generally being beside the tire when the tread de-laminates.
Oh, I know, it's happened to me. I was just lucky enough to have a small shoulder next to me and enough space between me and the truck ahead that I swerved to avoid it.

I guess I'm just struggling to visualize one of these killing a person or crashing a car...

I suppose if a perfect storm arose where the skin was sucked up into your wheel well...but even then...the debris couldn't be enough to stop your tire from spinning...
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