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You can be driving along a highway on a perfect and sunny cleary day and suddenly your tire will fall apart. The tread will separate and peel off from the tire like an orange. And what causes this, unfortunately, oftentimes can be a defective tire. A tire that was manufactured improperly, either because it doesn’t have the right chemical component, or because the design somehow is not proper for that particular kind of tire. And unfortunately, when something like that happens and there is a tread separation it usually results in a catastrophic injury. Meaning traumatic brain injury, spine injury, even paralysis or death.
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