I can’t decide if I’ve been incredibly unlucky or incredibly careless. Leaving a friend’s home in Dunstable yesterday evening, in the dark, I turned right at the main traffic lights in the centre of town and headed south on the A5. As I turned, I hit something with the front offside tyre – hard .
I stopped a little way further on, checked the wheel, tyre and bodywork and could find no damage, so I walked back to the junction to see what I had done. Despite careful inspection, I could see nothing lying in the road nor at the side, where conceivably an object could have been projected after I had hit it. The road, though pretty uneven, was not drastically so.
My conclusion was I had hit the kerb of the central reservation, though my recollection was of taking a fairly wide line round it. The kerb is high, and, apart from the traffic light column which is positioned there, there is one of those reflective “keep left” signs.
In the light of day I can see a bulge in the tyre wall. Looks as if I’ve made an expensive mistake.
I still don’t know why I didn’t see the kerb, which worries me, as it suggests I was pretty close to the traffic light column also. I have just a lingering thought that it might have been something else that I hit. Anyway, I have booked myself in for an appointment at Boots Opticians next week.
Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 12 Sep 13 at 01:23
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One tyre - wrecked new
One tyre - wrecked new