Glad I drove today.

[the Ferret]

I have had close calls of tractor trailer tire steel belt and rubber debris fly up in the air at freeway speed, but the worse thing to ever strike me was a bird.

In the late 70's I was close to a tractor trailer when he blew a tire. First off, the noise which sounded like a shotgun going off right next to your head, scared the bejeesus out of me ..... then the shrapnel of rubber chunks I had to dodge was equally frightening. To this day, I stay as far away from semis as I can, and pass them quickly if I come upon one.