Tire flies off dump truck and smashes vehicles on Beltway 8

Friday, December 21, 2018
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A tire flew off of a commercial truck Friday morning, smashing into other vehicles on Beltway 8.

The incident happened on the southbound lanes of Beltway 8 at Bissonnet, with the loose tire bouncing across northbound and southbound lanes and damaging multiple vehicles.

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No injuries were reported.

The loose tire damage is just the latest in a string of dangerous encounters with items on Houston's freeways. Thursday, a driver managed to escape serious injury when a tire smashed into her windshield.

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