In 20 years I’ve avoided a blowout, until about 20 mons ago on the A1 near Stevenage. Front driver side on the unit at a full 56mph, new pants required.
Got it on the hard shoulder so bonus, and I’ve called it into my place. Should I call HA now or wait for tyre fitter first?
toonsy:
In 20 years I’ve avoided a blowout, until about 20 mons ago on the A1 near Stevenage. Front driver side on the unit at a full 56mph, new pants required.Got it on the hard shoulder so bonus, and I’ve called it into my place. Should I call HA now or wait for tyre fitter first?
Tell HA you are there now.
Let them decide when to attend, and how to play it. Any tyre debris on road needs collecting ASAP.
glad your ok hope everything goes ok
Yeah I did it anyway so will see what happens from here.
Cheers Coops. Twas not nice
glad your ok hope everything goes ok
+1
Well done for holding it together and getting it onto the hard shoulder all in one bit, front blow still something i’ve yet to (hopefully not 
) experience, had a very rapid front deflate once and that was bad enough.
Suggest treating yourself to a large Greggs breaky at Baldock once up and running again, if that means going back to Baldock before resuming the journey south so be it.
In that situation with a front offside I’d always call the wombles, because if they’re you’ll get moving quicker once the tyre fitter is on site. Otherwise when the fitter is there they’ll call them out and you’ll be waiting longer at the roadside
So I called HE more for debris and to log the incident and they sent a patrol for a drive along to check the carriageway which was clear so when he got to me he pulled in to see how I was. As he got out the tree fitter turned up so Highways Engkand were already there.
I’d managed to dump the unit nose in to one of those police layby refuge things in the hope that it was enough for the tyre fitter to not need lane one closed and he was happy with that.
All in all, no damage to vehicle, road or persons, no delay to journeys for others and from pulling into hard shoulder to pulling out again it was 90mins so all in all a decent experience of sorts 
Rather you…
Than me good sir. Well played for holding it together.
I bet you have power steering though? About 35 years ago I was driving a Bedford TK on the M56 at about 52mph when I had a front nearside blow out. I’m still not sure how I managed to stop the truck from careering right up the embankment…I pulled a muscle in my shoulder trying to hang on to the wheel as it wrenched sideways!
Glad you’re OK. Only had 1 in 40 odd years, wouldn’t want a second one.