Woman killed by exploding tyre

[Pigeon]

Herman Toothrot said:

A friend exploded a tyre on a pushbike once with the air hose at a garage, it made a big bang and split the carcass - was near 100psi when it went, but thats all it did - split the carcass, no projectiles.

I exploded a pushbike tyre once with the heat from the brakes coming down a long and very steep hill... loud bang, huge split in inner tube, 20 miles from nearest bike shop, had to cobble together all the patches in my puncture kit to cover it and then keep pumping it up.

[LukeBird]

Christ, that's horrible...

[Dan_1981]

A traditional style scrappy near to us was killed a few years ago by an exploding HGV tyre.

Silly old bloke didn't have it in a cage or anything.

But that was how he'd always done things.

Story goes that it took his head clean off.

[LeoSayer]

collateral said:

poo at Paul's said:

My neighbour took great delight in telling me he runs his mazda 6 45 series tyres at 50psi nowadays and he gets better MPG......! I'll reming him of it when his centres wear prematurely!

That's semi-suicidal in my book. The contact patch must be horrendously effected by running what's probably close to twice the recommended pressure

Porsche recommend 44psi cold pressure for the rear tyres of some 911s.

[Silent1]

Having filled a tractor tyre to 33 psi and an equally large trailer tyre to 50 psi, i can safely say there's nothing more scary than clipping the hose on and walking back to the 'bunker' where the gauge is.

[CO2000]

I had a tyre with a bulging egg on the side wall (due to a flaming pot hole...) this week in the car, behind the front seat.
Very nearly had one of my boys legs on it while we took it to be replaced but moved him to the front instead. Still had my other boy in the back at the other side though. This story makes me shiver.

The damage was probably caused by the wire reinforcing - not a nice way to go.

[Adz The Rat]

I really hate to ask this, please someone PM me if they dont want to publish it on this thread but I dont understand how exactly the tyre killed her??

I dont mean to cause offence by this, I just dont understand it.

[Frik]

She's effectively holding a small bomb on her lap. How the hell do you think it killed her?

Absolutely tragic. Regardless of this I'd be very wary of being so close to a tyre with a big bulge in it.

[Silent1]

Adz The Rat said:

I really hate to ask this, please someone PM me if they dont want to publish it on this thread but I dont understand how exactly the tyre killed her??

I dont mean to cause offence by this, I just dont understand it.

by exploding, I should imagine the pressure wave ruptured her internal organs.

[grumbledoak]

Silent1 said:

by exploding, I should imagine the pressure wave ruptured her internal organs.

I doubt the pressure wave did much more than damage her eardrums. I'd imagine the tyre's wire components were more significant.

[Silent1]

grumbledoak said:

Silent1 said:

by exploding, I should imagine the pressure wave ruptured her internal organs.

I doubt the pressure wave did much more than damage her eardrums. I'd imagine the tyre's wire components were more significant.

what resting against her, say it's at 35psi that's fairly significant, no?

[grumbledoak]

Silent1 said:

what resting against her, say it's at 35psi that's fairly significant, no?

Atmospheric is 14.7 psi and we don't notice it at all. Even at 35 psi it's still just air, and there's plenty of space even in a small car for it to go; it's far more compressible than you are.

Anyway, probably one for another thread. RIP.

[JamesM]

That's fking balls. A 27 year old with everything left to live for gets taken out by something as stupid as a tyre, such a pisstake given she was in the army. R.I.P.

[Marquis_Rex]

The irony is- I wonder if they took the tyre off due to the dangerous lump/bulge on it- and yet had it burst while still on the car the chances of a fatality were lower than her carrying it herself.