{"id":2777,"date":"2007-09-20T03:03:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/axle-fed_remind_me_again_why_semis_need_those_nifty_double_tires_--_is_it_only_so_theres_a_backup_in_case_one_spins_away_and_slams_into_us.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:17:32","slug":"remind_me_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/remind_me_again.html","title":{"rendered":"Axle-F&#8217;ed: Remind Me Again Why Semis Need Those Nifty Double Tires &#8212; Is It Only So There&#8217;s A Backup In Case One Spins Away And Slams Into Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-tire0919,0,709193.story\">my worst nightmare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A massive double-tire flew off a moving big rig Tuesday evening on the Lower East Side, hurtling onto the sidewalk and striking a jogger.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling tire also damaged an FDNY call box and shattered the plate-glass window of a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The tire &#8220;was going fast. The truck was going fast, too,&#8221; said passerby David Ferron, who called police after witnessing the incident at First Avenue and Sixth Street. &#8220;He was speeding down the street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The truck, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer, had not returned to the scene nearly a half hour after the jogger was struck about 8 p.m., Ferron said.<\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene said the truck driver stopped several blocks up First Avenue, when he realized two of his tires were missing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is like my worst nightmare: A massive double-tire flew off a moving big rig Tuesday evening on the Lower East Side, hurtling onto the sidewalk and striking a jogger. The rolling tire also damaged an FDNY call box and shattered the plate-glass window of a Dunkin&#8217; Donuts. . . . The tire &#8220;was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}