Lucky escape.

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M6 J26. No doubt buying a lottery ticket, and new trousers. How they got it to hard shoulder and got out is some testament. Lucky not an inch or two to left or right. 'Kinell! Sadly not the first time seen this, but usually much worse outcome.

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donkmeister said:

I errr... Don't suppose there will be any dashcam footage to show where the wheel came from?

(I'm only joking because they walked away from it)

ETA given the immense impact, did the wheel come from the opposite carriageway?

HGV opposite carriageway indeed.

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OP here. Just to say quite a few years back, decades back now, did some work involved with the investigations into lost and loose wheel collisions. Situation in terms of numbers of incidents was worse than it is today, and lots of reasons for that. However for a time afterwards it completely freaked me out, just the concept of hammering up a dark motorway on the way to something and the prospect of an HGV wheel appearing out of nowhere. With the closing speeds involved and the unpredictability of the bounce it's bad enough to make an avoidance in daylight having picked it up earlier.

BTW, suspect the other vehicle involved is parked in the background on the other carriageway with a traffic unit behind it.

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neutral 3 said:

State of that tire.

Not really, look close up at the tread depth. It's a road use trailer tyre. Not sure make but have a look at

E.g. Bridgestone version




Michelin

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Shakermaker said:

Yeah this was on "Truck and Driver" facebook page a couple of days ago. A lorry tyre that was lost from the drive axle, apparently, of an HGV travelling on the opposite carriageway, came over the central reservation and lodged itself in the Peugeot.

Horrifying, and amazing that the occupant/s of the car had only minor injuries and were able to get to the hard shoulder.

That's clearly not a drive axle tyre, if it came off a drive axle then wrong type of tyre fitted. Which is potentially another issue, it's most likely just had a wheel changed, have they fitted the wrong equipment, e.g. trailer wheel on a drive axle, different fittings? Incorrect size spigot hole? Who knows.

This is an example of a drive axle tyre.

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echazfraz said:

It's odd isn't it? These are inanimate and harmless everyday things, and we consider them as such in most situations, but then bullets are just wee bits of metal lying around until they're travelling faster than the speed of sound. Get anything travelling quickly enough whether it's a bag of flour, a bottle, a stone, a goose, it's very, very likely to ruin your day if you encounter it at close quarters!

I'm surprised no one's asked (or stated) if / that the wheel was travelling faster than the truck it came from when it hit the Pug...

Best not to go down that conveyor belt again