https://old.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/12294i0/now_i_have_a_new_fear_of_driving/

If I had seen that in a Hollywood action film, I would have called bullshit



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no way would a car go that high in the air from hitting a wheel

That was a lot of hang time.

>car go that high in the air from hitting a wheel

There was a video of a similar accident on /r about a year ago.  It was a larger, heavier suv and a larger dump truck wheel, IIRC.  The tire crossed the median and  met the suv head-on.  The suv easily cleared one of those waist-high concrete dividers.

Storytime:  When I was 18-20, I was driving a 24' box truck with a pretty good load of electrical & plumbing supplies.  As I crossed the top of the hump in a drawbridge, I noticed a truck wheel rolling down the right side of the bridge near the railing. The truck was going straight and driving ok.

That is, ok until I turned the wheel a bit and the whole cab dipped down on the right.  I eased it off the road onto the shoulder.  Yep, that was MY right front wheel I had seen rolling away.

Reminds me of a friend doing a wheelie... except the front wheel detached. Not nearly as dramatic, but still pretty funny

>except the front wheel detached

Yeah, I did that once, too.  Drove the fork into the ground, flipped rear-over-front, and knocked the breath outta me (I HATE that!) for what seemed like 20 minutes.

A few years later, my first -and only- attempt at a wheelie on a Honda 160 motorcycle didn't fare much better with the Honda and its hot muffler ending up on top of me.