Old tires a threat

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Originally Posted by Flexin

I don't like the fact that they kept showing highway tractor tires on the side of the road. It was like they were trying to say they were car tires when clearly they were not.

I didn't like that either. The fact that they gave no statistics demonstrating frequency of accidents due to this issue wasn't encouraging. If these accidents occurred with anywhere near the frequency the report implied you also would think they could have found some real life survivors to sit in front of the camera and recount their horrific ordeal. That they only used one possible case to demonstrate their was a problem while laying no foundation for the event in question (how was the van loaded, what condition were the tires in, how many miles did the tires have) doesn't sit well with me. I believe they stated in the video that the tires were 4 years old when purchased and 9 years old at the time of the accident. For the average American passenger vehicle that would equate to around 75k miles on the tires at the time of the accident.

Maybe old tires are the problem the report makes it out to be, but the shitty reporting calls that contention in to question for me.