Check your tires every travel day!

[Crazydog]

A very tragic accident for sure. But how do we know it was caused by tire problems? It could have been caused by any number of things such as another vehicle, debris in the road, a moment of inattention or one of the thousands of potholes in the freeway.

 

[Scotttkd2]

Unfortunately tire pressure is only part of it, my pressures were perfect until blowouts occurred with no warning on any of the tire sensors. The tire conditions have to be checked as well, and both inner and outer sides visual inspection is the only way to tell if you have a bulge, checking, cracking etc. I now have a cheap flexible bore scope attachment for my phone that I can reach over and behind the tires to "see" the condition without having to crawl under. Paranoia some say, but some of us have lots of expensive 20/20 hindsight available to us now to have learned from.