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Afraid they can & do, punctures are allowed to be repaired in the centre two thirds of the tyre, nearer the edges they don't get repaired and it is an MOT fail if they are.
This is because of the potential damage to the reinforcement beading construction of the tyre of steel & rayon cords, the extra stress the edges of the tyre go through in cornering and acceleration/braking etc can cause cords adjacent to any damaged cords also breaking due to extra stress and eventually the rubber just blowing out through the damaged cords.
Fixedwheelnut
Tyres don’t catastrophically fail. You’d notice it going down long before it caused you an issue. I’ve sat behind a van on the motorway bobbing along on a tyre so flat he was getting sparks off the rim every now and then.