Mass Tire Punctures on a California highway

•    More than 30 drivers suffer flat tires at the same time on a California highway this week.

•    Presumably, a box of nails or other sharp objects fell onto on the road off a vehicle.

•    Flat tires are generally rare, but they can have serious consequences if they occur in the wrong place.

Flat tires are an inevitable part of driving a vehicle, especially when it’s driven a lot. In rare cases, you may inherit a defective tire. You might happen to run over a nail or a piece of debris that punctures the rubber of one tire. Here in Canada, of course, there’s always the risk of hitting one of our infamous potholes that have been known to reduce tires and rims to rubble.

On the highways of California, that’s less likely, if only because cracks and holes are much rarer there. You can still get a flat tire, but the chances are much smaller.

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