Hi Don, glad you got thru LA intact and alive! This summer was going west on the 210 not far from the 605, towing the jeep, when an 18 wheeler wanted to pass a slow lane car by coming into the middle lane in front of me, we were all doing somewhere in the 70 mph range, just after getting in front of me all the back right tires blew on the trailer, and we were all in close proximity, an entire tire carcass came flying out the back hitting the road just under the bus, tumbled under the length of the bus, came out on the left side of the jeep, hitting under the front and back tires.
There wasn't enough time to slow down as he passed, or enough room to get in another lane, traffic was heavy. Broke off the sewer line in the bus and did $1100 damage to the jeep. No lesson to be learned here, we all know what would have been ideal to do, hard braking would have caused a bigger accident I feel, and was thinking if a tire blew I should keep speed/momentum. Its just the tight quarters on some LA fwys and the speed at some times of day, as you mentioned, causes one to take other routes, thanks Bruce, is that a mountain rd.? lvmci...