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ColinTheBald
RE wheels falling off; in August 1999 I was driving down the M5 in the pissing rain towards Mousehole to see the eclipse when we spotted a truck wheel and tyre bouncing gracefully towards us on the other side of the motorway, missed us by a matter of metres and boinged right over us onto the front windscreen of a Volvo 340 (the quintessential vicars car). The traffic was just slow enough for us to establish the occupants weren't harmed (hand of god?) but it was terrifying. The wheel bounced off the Volvo and into a field where I assume it came to a rest. That's unconfirmed though, it might have gone off elsewhere in search of more Volvo 340s.... thinking about it you don't see many of them around anymore