I live right along WA-28 where the speed limit is 40mph and the other night I was sitting at the computer while watching the Mariners get their butts beat (again) when I heard a loud bang and tires start howling. I jumped up and ran out on the deck and saw a tire/wheel go rolling/bouncing down the highway and a pickup coming to a rest on its side. Luckily it turned out the guy and his girlfriend weren't hurt.

I talked with a lady that was following the pickup and she said it had just pulled out from the mini-mart and wasn't going very fast then she saw it start to jerk back and forth a little, hit the guardrail and then started rolling down the highway.

The cause of it was the right front tire/wheel had come off causing it to swerve into the guardrail and then start rolling. It looked like it may have rolled a couple of times.

I have seen the pickup around numerous times and it looked to have a 4-6 inch lift and its' tires stuck a good 4 inches past the fenders with way too much positive off set. Every time I saw it I'd think to myself that it had to be really hard on the hub assembly with that much positive off set. Apparently it was because when the tire/wheel was retrieved it still had the brake rotor attached to it.

Here's a picture that my wife took.

 

damn that sux.good thing no one got hurt