death from tire explosion?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263095/U-S-Air-Force-captain-Jenna-Wilcox-holiday-Scotland-dies-freak-accident-sports-car-tyre-explodes-lap.html

A U.S. Air Force officer has died after a tyre exploded inside her sports car while she was on holiday in Scotland, police said. Captain Jenna Wilcox, 27, who had survived a roadside bomb attack on a recent tour in Afghanistan, was on a break with her husband when the freak accident happened last week. She was rushed to hospital but died last night. It is thought the couple had changed the wheel on their BMX Z3 after noticing a bulge in a tyre. They replaced it with the space saver tyre - designed to get them to a local garage - but could not fit the full size one in the boot because it was full of luggage. Capt Wilcox, of the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, sat with it on her lap inside the car. It is not known what caused it to explode.

30 psi is a lot of force. And her head was right next to it.

i had a tire explode literally 3 inches from the side of my head. luckily the only damage was temporary deafness and about a 5 day ringing in my hear. was torching a subframe bolt on a thunderbird and the tire caught fire without me realizing it.

patgizz wrote: was torching a subframe bolt on a thunderbird and the tire caught fire without me realizing it.

Sadly, that picture goes well with your signature....

Isn't that what happened in Brokeback Mountain?

I thought the Z3 had the spare UNDER the trunk like the Ti does? Either way, it would not fit in that space again.

Shame that had to happen

Lesley wrote: Isn't that what happened in Brokeback Mountain?

you are so bad....

just what are trying to do ..?? start a new fight ?

a BMX Z3? Holy crap..

Quite a few folks killed over the years from the old two piece rims coming apart while being inflated.

The shop I worked at in high school was one of the few places that would still put tires on them. One day we heard a loud explosion on the other end of the shop and the whole building shook. Turns out that one guy was seating the bead with out putting the tire/wheel in the cage. That is the one that let go, Thankfully no one was hurt but it did make a nice 16" round hole in the shop ceiling. The hole always leaked when it rained. No OSHA was NOT notified.

My local tire shop owner had a semi tire blow out on him while inflating. It split his face verticaly and pealed it back from his skull. He now looks good considering, just looks like he has the mother of all hairlips.

Article comments said: The only thing sadder than this lady's unfortunate death are the nerds who are using this as a discussion piece for tyres to inflate their own egos. - Mel Drew, UK, 03/4/2010 10:16

Comments like these are annoying as hell. The only ego inflation I'm seeing here are this douche who does so by trying to attack people who seem to be more knowledgeable than himself.

And yeah, this is a hell of a tragedy, and must be incredibly frustrating for the woman's loved ones who have to deal with this bit of irony.

Tommy Suddard wrote: 30 psi is a lot of force. And her head was right next to it.

Not only that, it says they changed the wheel from because they notice a bulge, which probably means it was very very over inflated.

Tires hold a lot of energy.

They had us watch a film in autoshop where they scored a tire so it would fail, then put it next to a manikin and pumped it up to about 80psi where it popped.

Pretty much destroyed the entire manikin, and sent the bigger parts across the runway they were doing it on.

RedS13Coupe wrote: Not only that, it says they changed the wheel from because they notice a bulge, which probably means it was very very over inflated.

not necessarily so... my old '86 Suby started to shimmy and shake at speed (with that car the phrase "at speed", is somewhat optimistic) finally found the problem was a bulge in one of the tires (inflated to 32psi) nothing more than a bad spot in the old tire... they should have been replaced long before that happened, just lazy... but not over inflated

Note to self: let the air out of the tire before putting it inside the car with me.
I ride with my race tires in the back of my Explorer all the time. When I read threads like this it motivates me to build a rack on my trailer.

wbjones wrote:

RedS13Coupe wrote: Not only that, it says they changed the wheel from because they notice a bulge, which probably means it was very very over inflated.

not necessarily so...

This............

A sidewall bulge usually is caused by an impact rupturing the inner sidewall; the internal air pressure pushes against the tire's inner-liner but is still contained by the outer rubber. Think of it as a hernia and you get a basic idea. A sidewall rupture can occur with low pressure as well as high pressure.

There are a lot of details about this tragic accident that are not provided in the article.

fornetti14 wrote: Note to self: let the air out of the tire before putting it inside the car with me. I ride with my race tires in the back of my Explorer all the time. When I read threads like this it motivates me to build a rack on my trailer.

If your tires are in good condition you should never have this kind of problem, even with auto-x inflation rates.

Build the rack anyway because loose tires in a passenger compartment become deadly projectiles in an accident.

captainzib wrote: Comments like these are annoying as hell. The only ego inflation I'm seeing here are this douche who does so by trying to attack people who seem to be more knowledgeable than himself.

I have noticed a strange attitude coming from a number of people in the UK. There seems to be status in being ignorant of how everyday things work, and low/no status in being knowledgeable.

Knurled wrote:

captainzib wrote: Comments like these are annoying as hell. The only ego inflation I'm seeing here are this douche who does so by trying to attack people who seem to be more knowledgeable than himself.

I have noticed a strange attitude coming from a number of people in the UK. There seems to be status in being ignorant of how everyday things work, and low/no status in being knowledgeable.

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy?

explosion from wielding heat (amazing how the temps suddenly skyrocket!), but still a tire explosion; quite powerful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiLeji8bLOk

captainzib wrote: Have you seen the movie Idiocracy?

It wasn't as good as "Ass".

I gave up on reading performance car (UK rag) after the third time in as many issues that they claimed that if you don't put in an "uprated clutch", you will "split the transmission casing". That's right, they said with a straight face that a slipping clutch will cause a form of transmission failure that basically never happens.

And I thought most American mags were bad. There's a difference between being clueless, and being willfully ignorant and passing on deliberately bad information as fact.

Don't get me started on "Top Gear". That show makes me want to turn the TV off Elvis-style.

Knurled wrote: Don't get me started on "Top Gear". That show makes me want to turn the TV off Elvis-style.

Thems fightin words

Hotlinked!

These guys got away with it.

I've heard that God looks out for fools and children. Save 6 minutes of your life and skip ahead to about 4:50.

Tommy Suddard wrote: Hotlinked!

It's not trolling. I can't stand that show. They claim to be car guys but all they seem to care about is fit and finish, or the way the ignition key is shaped, or something. The only time the show is tolerable is when they aren't actually talking about cars. (Like the vacu-suck R/C car up the side of the building incident - that was classic)

maybe you just missed the good episodes... I love the challenges myself