Viral video: Tyre rolls off truck, sends car flying on highway

A rogue tyre sent a car flipping on an LA highway (Image: Anoop_Khatra/Twitter)

A Tesla dashcam recorded the hair-raising moment a car flipped and crashed on a highway after coming in contact with a rogue tyre. Footage of the accident, which took place in Los Angeles, has been watched over 15 million times on Twitter.

The video was shared by Anoop Khatra, who was driving down the Chatsworth freeway earlier this week when he witnessed the terrifying crash. The whole thing was recorded on the dashcam of his Tesla.

Khatra’s video shows a tyre becoming detached from a pickup truck and rolling towards a Kia Soul. Within a fraction of a second, the loose tyre sends the Kia airborne. The car flips several times on the road before coming to a standstill.

“Witnessed and recorded the most INSANE car crash yesterday,” Khatra wrote while sharing the video on Twitter, where it has collected over 15 million views in three days. He added that his own Tesla, om Autopilot, swerved immediately after detecting the tyre, possibly preventing a second accident.

Witnessed and recorded the most INSANE car crash yesterday, you can see Autopilot also swerve and avoid the rouge tire for me $TSLA pic.twitter.com/csMh2nbRNX

— Anoop (@Anoop_Khatra) March 25, 2023

On Twitter, Khatra added that the driver of the pickup truck stopped to check on the Kia driver and was apologetic about the mishap. “Been seeing a lot of comments about the truck fleeing but the pickup driver definitely stopped, and even came back running across the free way to check on the Kia driver, they were very sincere and apologetic about everything,” the eyewitness clarified.