Terrifying moment new tire flies off family's car and crashes into oncoming vehicle after they drove out of the auto repair store
- Dashcam footage caught a tire rolling down a street and hitting an oncoming car
- The escaped tire was one of four to have been newly fitted at an auto repair store
- The tire crashed into a car then bounced back and clipped a traffic light pole
The moment a newly-fitted tire flew off a car, rolled into the road and slammed into another vehicle has been caught on video.
Dashcam and rear-view cameras captured the dramatic moment as the man drove two children home after getting new tires fitted in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
At the start of the clip the vehicle is seen pulling away from a yellow auto repair store.
Dashcam footage captures the runaway tire rolling down the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after breaking free of the car
The tire heads straight towards an oncoming white car as the driver of the recording vehicle stares in horror
The footage cuts to the front dashcam showing the car travelling down the street nearly 30 minutes later as the male driver tells a young girl and boy that ‘we’re going to go home’.
Suddenly the vehicle starts shaking and the man’s eyes widen in shock.
The rear dashcam shows a cloud of smoke rise from the back of the car as it continues to shake.
A tire is then seen racing down the other side of the street before hitting on oncoming white car, damaging its front-right light.
The driver, whose tire broke off, is heard saying: ‘Are you serious?’
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Unable to react quickly enough, the white car is hit by the tire causing damage to its front-right light
After crashing into the white car the tire bounces up and backwards in the air before clipping the underside of a traffic light pole
The little girl next to him asks: ‘Is that your tire?’
After crashing into the white car, the tire bounces backwards with enough height to clip the underside of a traffic light pole.
At the end of the video both drivers pull up alongside each other and the man recording says: 'We just put them on too!'
Speaking after the accident the driver said: ‘My tire flew off after getting new tires put on at a shop and hit another car hard!’
The video was recorded on June 5 but was recently shared online.
