a few nuts loose in SE wisconsin

[spiral97]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/03/11/murray.tire.smashes.minivan.wtmj

[mu_hilltopper]

Yeah, amazing we don't see more traffic incidents on video.

It's scary because .. 2 months ago in Milwaukee, a tire came off a truck, did the exact same thing, bounced over into oncomming traffic .. hit a BMW, killed the driver, who was the chief doctor at a local hospital. 

One day you're driving home from work, the next minute, boom.  No chance to swerve.  Dead.

[spiral97]

yeah.. tire incidents must not be uncommon on that stretch.. I used to do a daily drive from MU to Racine for a summer job.. ended up running over a good portion of tire that came flying at me in the middle of the interstate (from a truck blowout).  No damage done as far as I could see but it did not sound pretty scraping against the bottom of my car.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

The problem in that particular incident is that the freaking DOT has to clean that snow up. The bank served as a ramp. They are doing a crappy job cleaning those shoulders!