HOUSTON – A woman says she is thankful to have only suffered only minor cuts after a flying tire crushed the front of her car on I-45 North on Thursday morning.
Kaniesha Lynn says if she wasn’t paying attention and didn’t swerve at the last second, she probably wouldn’t have survived the incident.
Lynn was in the northbound lanes of the freeway near Cypresswood when a tire flew off another vehicle and then struck the center barrier. The tire then bounced back into the northbound lanes and toward her car.
Photos: Woman's car crushed by loose tire on I-45 North
“And it could have hit my side, but I just so happened to swerve out of the way, and it hit the right side of my car instead of my side,” says Lynn. “I knew if I didn’t move that that could have been my life. I started crying. I immediately turned on my hazard lights and slowed down, and another bystander actually saw what happened and he saw me trying to get the car moved off the road, and he slowed down with me, because I couldn’t see, so I could get over to the shoulder.”
The tire destroyed her car's windshield and crushed the roof on the passenger side. Lynn says she was driving by herself, heading to The Woodlands, when it happened.
She suffered only minor cuts to her face.
“I’m glad that that was it.”
She is upset, however, that this was her first incident behind the wheel.
“And it wasn’t even my fault.”
Her warning for other drivers: put down the phone and put down the makeup.
“Pay attention. If I wasn’t paying attention, I probably wouldn’t be doing this interview right now. And I was paying attention.”