Bo B Bunny
Well-Known Member
We left around 7 a.m. this morning for a horse show about 45 minutes from our home. We hesitated going because there were storms due in sometime around noon. Still, we missed the last show because we needed new brakes on the trailer, so we wanted to try to go at least for a few classes.
I was driving my F250 with a shell on the bed and hubby had the F550 pulling the horse trailer..... thank God... else Pokie wouldno doubt have been killed.
We'd only been on the road for about 10 minutes - Luke was in the truck with me... Lexi was with her dad about 5 minutes behind us..... I was going to stop for gas...
The following event took about 10 to 15 seconds I would imagine..... but seemed an eternity....
Iwas traveling about 59 mph on a State Highway that goes through a rural area but is busy. When suddenly......... POP!!!!!
I felt the truck pull to the right and my son said "What's wrong?" and I realized the tire had blown..... while we "flew" down a huge, steep, probably 20 footembankment with a THUNK, and I felt the truck starting to flip.... I told him to hold on cause we were goingto flip over... (the trailer would have already flipped by now I know) when I heard a smaller pop and something held us down on the ground long enough for us to travel off the steep part and come to a stop..... in the middle of a beautiful, freshly plowed and planted corn field...... A window on the shell topper burst as we hit the edge of the embankment and the air-pressure from that must have kept us down and then it ripped the shell right off the truck.... this was a huge fiberglass shell. It landed about 50 feet in the other direction.... it was as if a tornado had hit us...
We sat there.... scared... then decided to get out and hubby went flying by.... he didn't know it was us since the topper was off the truck..... but then they saw and turned around. Somehow he managed to get the truck out of the cornfield and my spare tire's bracket wouldn't let go so bro-inlaw brought us a tire to use. Pokie was fine as long as Lexi spoke to her (we didn't take Kota) and we ended up going on to the show. Lexi went in a few classes that were huge but got a 5th in horsemanship and a 2nd in Western Pleasure. Her friend showed up and we got to visit with them a while.
I'm sunburnt, rained on and VERY sore...... but happy as a clam. We are ok. The tire's belt literally broke in two. There was a huge hole in the tire with no real debri on the road from it.
I was driving my F250 with a shell on the bed and hubby had the F550 pulling the horse trailer..... thank God... else Pokie wouldno doubt have been killed.
We'd only been on the road for about 10 minutes - Luke was in the truck with me... Lexi was with her dad about 5 minutes behind us..... I was going to stop for gas...
The following event took about 10 to 15 seconds I would imagine..... but seemed an eternity....
Iwas traveling about 59 mph on a State Highway that goes through a rural area but is busy. When suddenly......... POP!!!!!
I felt the truck pull to the right and my son said "What's wrong?" and I realized the tire had blown..... while we "flew" down a huge, steep, probably 20 footembankment with a THUNK, and I felt the truck starting to flip.... I told him to hold on cause we were goingto flip over... (the trailer would have already flipped by now I know) when I heard a smaller pop and something held us down on the ground long enough for us to travel off the steep part and come to a stop..... in the middle of a beautiful, freshly plowed and planted corn field...... A window on the shell topper burst as we hit the edge of the embankment and the air-pressure from that must have kept us down and then it ripped the shell right off the truck.... this was a huge fiberglass shell. It landed about 50 feet in the other direction.... it was as if a tornado had hit us...
We sat there.... scared... then decided to get out and hubby went flying by.... he didn't know it was us since the topper was off the truck..... but then they saw and turned around. Somehow he managed to get the truck out of the cornfield and my spare tire's bracket wouldn't let go so bro-inlaw brought us a tire to use. Pokie was fine as long as Lexi spoke to her (we didn't take Kota) and we ended up going on to the show. Lexi went in a few classes that were huge but got a 5th in horsemanship and a 2nd in Western Pleasure. Her friend showed up and we got to visit with them a while.
I'm sunburnt, rained on and VERY sore...... but happy as a clam. We are ok. The tire's belt literally broke in two. There was a huge hole in the tire with no real debri on the road from it.
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