close call!
 

Ned,

Glad to hear you and your son are OK. Given what happened, your car seems to be OK.

Take care,
Chris

Bonspeed might be able to fix that wheel call them and find out. Sorry about the bad luck one of the risk of driving anything on the road.

My lawyer friend feels there is now way in hell that we dont have a case against the other driver....he's gonna look into it.....he may be dead wrong once he researches it more. It wouldnt suprise me. What makes common sense isnt always what is "the law". There was no way to avoid hitting it.... the driver in front swerved and just missed it and I had no place to go.... I was lucky I only grazed it

If nothing else maybe he can scare the guy into kicking in some for damages.

I have no idea about wheel repair places.....anyone that does, please chime in..... I'm in N. California

Ned, is the center of the wheel damaged at all? it doesn't look to be in the pictures but kinda hard to tell. Does it just need to be re-hooped?

It looks like it could be re-hooped....know of anyone that can do that ?

I know Intro used to be able to do that... I would contact the manufacture first and get input from them. I have seen in a few magazines (a while back) articles of repairing wheels / re- hooping wheels, etc. Someone will be able to get you taken care of.

Jason

Try this guy: http://www.esajianwheels.com/home.php

I used him to change the bs on my wheels a while back and he did great work in a timely manor. I don't know how hard it is to get a hoop these days but it might be worth a try.

I am an insurance guy and this is the way it works
 

Something sitting in the road and you hit it, you are at fault. IE ladder laying in the road. If you were following someone and they missed it and you hit it, then they will say you were following too close to the car in front to take action or you were not paying attention. This is the case even if you hit a huge pot hole in the road at night...driving to fast for conditions, etc.

Now if something flys off the truck and hits your car or the road and hits your car it is considered comp not a collison loss...normally the object still has to be moving but not always

Here is where your case is different. It sounds like the guy did not secure his load and the tire fell off his truck and people avoided it...but you. In that case, it is his fault. Obvioulsy the chain of events were such that it had just fallen off even though it may have been at rest when you hit it.

Now had the guy taken off and no witnesses stopped to say it fell off, they would find you responsible.

I know it sucks, but it is the way things work. You will only get a point if you are found to be "at fault." In this case I do not see it.

Sorry to hear that Ned. Hope things work out for you.

The wheel didnt fall off a truck etc.... it literally came off his wheel hub while driving. It was a small import car like a Honda Civic or something like that.

The driver in front of me all of a sudden swerved over into the other lane....no braking, no slowing down......just all of a sudden, like they saw it at the last second. The big difference is that they had a place to go since the lane next to them was empty.....by the time that car moved enough for me to see a wheel in the road, there was a car next to me and I had no place to go. Its a very busy highway with alot of traffic, so it was wall to wall cars going 65-80 MPH...not many places to maneuver quickly. If there wasnt a car next to me I could have gotten around it.... there was no way I could have braked and stopped and even if I had there would have been a car up my ass in seconds.

I'll make some calls to day and see what my options are....at this point since the damage seems isolated to the rim/tire, I'll probably just fit the bill myself. If my lawyer friend can squeeze some $$ out of the other guy, all that much better, but I'm not going to count on it or make it a big drag out fight.