If the O/S/F has gone boom, we need TNCSI and CF to explain how the wagon veers to the right.
Physics???
Weight transfer, which direction the driver turns the steering wheel or he didn’t have no time to react?
I would of thought the wheel hub of the blown tyre would act as a pivot like turning a wheelchair. Or if it was still turning at the same rate as the fns then the different diameters would make it go to the right.
It’s all happened so quick.
It will at 50+ mph
That’ll buff out.
A bit of Duck tape or Gaffer tape should suffice.
I feel very lucky then, 2 weeks ago when I was heading up the autoroute towards Chateauroux, because a tyre exploded on an artic powder tanker just as I began to overtake it.
I heard the explosion and in the instant I could see nothing but a brown cloud with lots of little black fragments blotting the view from my windscreen.
I continued straight and was immediately clear and saw the wagon pulling onto the shoulder, which was very narrow. I did the same several hundred metres further on where it widened a bit next to a phone.
Took a few minutes to recover from the shock and, in a brief moment when nothing was passing got out and ran round the front checking for damage with one eye on the passing traffic.
But it wasn’t over. I restarted along the shoulder and, when up to speed signalled left to rejoin but continued straight. It was very busy but then a wagon flashed me and began his move to the next lane to allow me out. By this time I was almost at his speed but allowed him to complete his pass of me and moved to the left. As I flashed him back in I saw in my mirror another wagon moving over behind me but he was flashing angrily and blowing his horn, so I let him pass and flashed him back in, no thank you this time and when I passed him later, more hornblowing and rude handsigns. 2 sides of the courtesy and otherwise on the roads today.
I responded to a transporter that had done the same thing, depositing 7 high end Range Rovers across all lanes shutting the motorway!
Looks to me like the brake lights come on instantly.
The blown side will have more drag than the inflated wheel which continues to run freely.
Like hitting a deep puddle on one side only. Haven’t we all felt the steering pull in that situation?
Apart from the lack of a tyre there might also be debris dragging on the blown side and even ripping brake lines off and jamming brakes on.
Also with a high load the drop on that side is chucking the vehicle over at a nasty angle.
Transporters are not the most stable of vehicles to start with. Higher and longer than many other trucks.
If @juddian were still around he would say more than I ever could.
Insurance right off then Boss Man.
Just a wee bit, I was initially told it was a multiple pile up, until I turned up and found it was a wagon and its load.
The public do tend to exaggerate, it’s human nature to over emphasise the situation, if a car has a bang and it’s only steam from the radiator the caller will say it’s on fire a multiple appliances are dispatched.
Or occupants trapped is definitely all hands on deck for a shout, on arrival they were only struggling to get their seat belts off.
I had the same thing with a car transporter on the m40 s/ bound just before Cherwell valley exit .
It wasn’t quick like that incident , he slowly started to drift to the right ( I’d just started to o/take ) , I originally thought it was sleep / medical that was causing him to come my way , then the front tyre went completely and the transporter went hard right , he luckily didn’t hit the central reservation.
I pulled over to make sure he was ok , he was but said he just couldn’t hold it , he was just a passenger , frightening to witness .
That was frightening to see Dozy.
I’ve lost count of the amount of vehicle fires I’ve been tasked to, only to arrive and find it’s a blown turbo.
Lucky escape for 7 Range rover customers, at least for a while.
Or a split fuel pipe that makes smoke but not on fire.