I was driving home from school one afternoon, and out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a wheel rolling across the highway and watched in amusement as cars swerved left and right to avoid it. The tire made its way from the right shoulder of the highway to the left side, somehow hopped the center divider and flew into oncoming traffic. It hit the front right corner of a pickup truck in the left lane. The impact sent the wheel flying about 15 feet in the air and back to my side of the freeway, straight into the side of my car.
At first, I thought it had hit the front of my car, so I got out and examined the hood and bumper and couldn't understand why there was no damage. As soon as I turned around and saw the doors, the adrenaline rush hit, and I started crying.
The wheel came off a Honda that was being loaded onto a tow truck on the right shoulder. I have no idea how it got into the street. The cop was smart enough to fill out the police report and take down the necessary insurance information, otherwise the tow truck driver and Honda owner would be dead. Speaking of dead, I don't want to know what would have happened if it had gone through my window, but I imagine my face would look something like my car door.
For the record, it hit so hard that my mirror was out of adjustment, and it didn't even touch my mirror.
