Moment new tire flies off family car and crashes into oncoming vehicle shortly after it was fitted 

Terrifying moment new tire flies off family car and crashes into oncoming vehicle shortly after it was fitted

  • Dashcam footage caught a tire rolling down a street and hitting an oncoming car 
  • The escaped tire was one of four to have been newly fitted at an auto repair store
  • The tire crashed into a car then bounced back and clipped a traffic light pole

A newly fitted tire rolled down the street and crashed into an oncoming car after breaking away from a moving vehicle in New Mexico.

Shocking dashcam footage recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, captured the moment a brand-new tire came away from the underside of a car and rolled down the street into the path of oncoming traffic.

At the start of the clip the vehicle is seen pulling away from a yellow auto repair store which has a collection of tires lying outside of it.

A tire rolls down the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after breaking free of the recording vehicle

The runaway tire heads straight towards an oncoming white car as the driver of the recording vehicle stares in horror

The runaway tire heads straight towards an oncoming white car as the driver of the recording vehicle stares in horror

The footage cuts to the front dashcam showing the car travelling down the street nearly 30 minutes later as the male driver tells a young girl and boy that ‘we’re going to go home’. 

Suddenly the vehicle starts shaking and the man’s eyes visibly widen in shock.

The rear dashcam shows a cloud of smoke rise from the back of the car as it continues to shake.

A tire is then seen racing down the other side of the street before hitting on oncoming white car, damaging its front-right light.

The driver, whose tire broke off, is heard saying: ‘Oh car! Are you serious?’

Unable to react quickly enough, the white car is hit by the tire causing damage to its front-right light

Unable to react quickly enough, the white car is hit by the tire causing damage to its front-right light

After crashing into the white car the tire bounces up and backwards in the air before clipping the underside of a traffic light pole

After crashing into the white car the tire bounces up and backwards in the air before clipping the underside of a traffic light pole

The little girl next to him asks: ‘Is that your tire?’

After crashing into the white car, the tire bounces backwards with enough height to clip the underside of a traffic light pole.

At the end of the video both drivers pull up alongside each other and the man recording says: ‘We just put them on too!’

Speaking after the accident the driver said: ‘My tire flew off after getting new tires put on a s shop and hit another car hard!’

The video was recorded on June 5 but was recently shared online.