This afternoon in Douglas County, my former home, a 2001 Ford Explorer crashed due to tread separation on a tire and predictable driver reaction to that event. The 39 year old driver from Austell was killed.

Tire failure is a well known cause of fatal crashes. Some time back I made the joint damages presentation for a team of products liability lawyers who recovered a total $9.2 million for members of a college cheerleading squad who were riding in a passenger van that rolled over after tread separation in a defectively manufactured tire.