Spare tire explodes.

I am watching local 6:00 PM tv news.A driver hit a spare tire in the road.The spare tire exploded upon impact, setting the driver's car on fire. First time I have ever heard of that before. cuhulin

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cuhulin
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Setting it on *fire*? surely there was another cause?

I *guess* I could see the rim having something to do with it - quartz in the road and steel in the rim. Flint and steel right?

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chuckcar

Perhaps someone filled the tire with gas?

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Pete C.

Flat repair in a can?! That crap will blow up when breaking the bead off the rim.

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willy

Flat repair in a can?! That crap will blow up when breaking the bead off the rim.

*****

Maybe used to be.. Not now. The propellant is not flammable.

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hls

I would say it wasn't really a spare tire. Just an IED made to look like a spare tire. Might have been filled with LP or something similar.

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Steve W.

My guess is that running into a spare tire on the road could destroy it. Running into a spare tire could also mess up the front end of a car and cause fuel leakage which could start a fire. This could easily be mistaken for an exploding tire if your deductive reasoning is on the sketchy side.

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dsi1

I agree. If you ran into an ordinary spare tire, you didnt get a firey explosion from that tire that caught your car on fire....

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hls

I think when the car hit the tire/wheel, it burst and tore up part of the car's fuel system and that caused the car to catch on fire.I am only guessing though. cuhulin

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cuhulin

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