Almost lost it on the highway tonight.

That came off a truck and is called a 'dog', it's used for securing & tightening chains on a load.... obviously not in this case.

Around this way there's a fair amount of people towing boats and tourists towing caravans up and down the highway, and just a few don't service their wheel bearings on the trailers.... which eventually fail.... and the wheel shears off!
Had one wheel come flying down the highway towards me years ago, and know someone who hit a spare lying in the middle of the road at night.
There's a ton of other stuff I've seen coming off trailers as well.

 

yea coming down the highway, 2x4 piece of steel slid off the back of a flatbed truck at 100kph, bounced at windshield height, hit the road, came up again then as it went down and straight under the car, compeltly ####ed 2 rims, blew out 1 tyre and damaged a tierod end,

i was in the Right hand lane, no where to go and couldn't tell wtf is was till i went for a walk and found the chunk of **** off cut steel.

Changed the ####ed tyre, straighten 2 of the rims with a mallet and drove 3 blocks to Holden and told em to put new rims and tyres on and check the suspension and **** for damage.

Was lucky it didn't end up going through the windshield.

(another story after the above was repaired, ####ing Holden didn't notice the big chunk missing out of the tie rod end despite me asking them to check the control arms and **** for damage and the ####er snapped on me less then a month later not long after i got off the highway, luckily i was going slow at the time or could of been worse when the force pulled the axle out of the diff (front wheel drive work car) and the only thing holding the wheel to the car was the brake line and strut top and only just, wheel came so far out it bent the guard etc)

 

#### troy, i thought mine was bad, thats ####loads worse.

 

several years ago I barely managed to miss a loading ramp that fell out of the back of a car transporter trailer on the highway. The ramps slide under the tray and are supposed to be locked in with a pin. Obviously the driver forgot to lock them in. Once ramp fell out on the highway right in front of myself and several other motorists and the other side was on it's way out as well. Somehow we all managed to miss the ramps and the driver pulled up as soon as he spotted the chaos.

 

ouch that would be a kick in the teeth, in my old commodore going up a dirt road i went around a bend and there was a rather large rock in the dead middle of the road, slammed the brakes but yea ran over it n it bashed itself along the bottom of my car and nearly ripped my exhaust off.. some idiot put it there beacause you could see where they had removed it from the bank and placed it in the way -.o

 

#### that's bad man. 1st post is right they use them to tighten chains on truck when hauling heavy loads, that would do some damage.

 

Many years ago, I was heading north on the F3 just before the Brooklyn Bridge. It was heavy holiday traffic, but moving comfortably about 100 KPH. I was in the right hand lane, with a rock wall right beside the lane.

Suddenly, I noticed the car two in front rapidly change into the next lane, causing all sorts of reactions from the cars in that lane. By the time my mind took in what was happening, I started to brake. Then the car in front did the same thing. I was then confronted with a lecturn lying on the road. With a truck on my left, I had no option but to keep braking so that impact was as slow as possible. The lecturn smashed into lots of little pieces, and my front bumper did likewise. You could imagine the chaos developing. I gingerly drove on a few hundred metres until there was room to move off the road to the right, no chance to the left with the heavy traffic.

A quick inspection showed that there was absolutely nothing of the bumper bar remaining, but no damage to the radiator or other components. While wondering what to do, I heard multiple beeping of horns up ahead. The cause soon became evident. A flat bed truck full of school furniture was backing up the busy highway in the right lane. I stopped the truck, and asked the driver what he was doing, and he replied that a lecturn had fallen off his truck, and he was going back to get it. I informed him that it was "written off"and only good for firewood, and asked for his details.

Luckily, his insurance paid for my repairs. Also luckily, the car was drivable so we continued on holidays.

 

I've had countless times where rocks and stones have fallen off trucks, tumbled down the road and hit my car because they haven't secured their load/cleaned their truck tray and or overloaded!

 

I recently lost a 6x8 hire trailer at 100km/h. My brother had to catch a flight on a sunday afternoon and he'd planned to put his stuff in storage in the morning before he left. It took him hours to find a hire trailer because he was stupid and didn't pre book one and then discovered his tow bar couldn't attach properly. He came to my place in a rush thinking his gonna miss his flight and asked for help. We quickly put the towbar back on my car (had been in the shed for 2 years) and in our mad rush neither of us bolted the towbar in, she was just sitting in there loosely.

So we've gone and picked up the trailer, drove about 3k's and sitting on 100km/h when the trailer flies off, gets airborne, and crashes down an embankment and gets buried on its side deep in a bunch of bushes and stuck in mud. It somehow managed to bisect 2 cars in the lane besides us. How it missed them both I still don't know. Took us an hour to drag it out, bolted it all up (properly this time), and finished the job before taking it back undamaged and retrieving our deposit

 

Got hit in the head by a seagull on my bike going down the motorway at 110. Poo'd my pants.

 

:rofl2: ^^^ Sorry mate. I'm crying from laughter because I've had the same ^^^

 

Its funny now but not at the time lol. I had to replace my $1000 Shoei.

 

was driving up the pacific highway a few years ago following a ute with some surf boards strapped to it. Well the strap broke and thr surfboards went up and over the road.. missed my car and they cleaned up the cars behind us. the ute just drove on and didnt notice he has lost his load.

Another time on the M2 i was following a small truck with a load of wood strapped to the cross bar.. The wood did the same thing shot up in the air, I saw it and floored it wood went over my car and bounced on the road behind me..

 

My last car + runaway truck =

 

Three incidents in my time, but none where my car was damaged.

Way back in the mid 60's, my folks took us for a caravan holiday to Port Macquarie. A hired van was hooked up behind the ol' HR and off we went.

Got to Taree, and in those days, you had to drive through the town. We had come down the hill past Purfleet and just crossed the bridge over the Manning. We approached the lights which were red and the old man hit the picks. Next thing, "bang!" followed by a strange feeling as the van decided to push us forward a bit. The welding on the tow bar had given way and the goose-neck, ball and van dropped free just as we slowed down for the lights. Wouldn't like to think what might have happended if it had been a few k's earlier.

Second incident. Following a mate in his old EK when his bonnet suddenly flies open. He's all over the place trying to slow down and remember what was in front of him just before it happened. No damage apart from a rooted bonnet.

Third one. F3 at the Hawkesbury a couple of years ago. My son was driving his VZ home with me as passenger. Late at night and pitch black. We ran over a bloody mattress - obviously flown off some dill's trailer or roof-rack and left there.

A mattress at 110 kph is nothing to run into. They might be nice and soft to lay on but at that speed, it might as well be a brick wall. Only damage was to the lower valance panel fortunately as the car seems to have passed over it after the wheels struck.