Tires keep us safe on the road, and if something goes wrong with them, anything could happen.<\/p>\n
One May morning in 2009, Tracey Parker of Florida was driving her Chevy Cobalt down I95. One of her tires came off its rim, and she lost control of her car. Her vehicle flipped three times and landed on the highway median. Parker was 39 years old at the time of the accident, a wife and mother to three young boys. She was not expected to survive her injuries. <\/p>\n
Her coma lasted a month, but remarkably, Parker did survive. After 17 operations and more than three months in the hospital, she went home with a $1.5 million medical bill. Even at home, she was in constant pain; some of her broken bones never healed properly. Her whole life was turned inside out, and she will never be the same person she was before the crash. (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tires keep us safe on the road, and if something goes wrong with them, anything could happen. One May morning in 2009, Tracey Parker of Florida was driving her Chevy Cobalt down I95. One of her tires came off its…<\/span><\/p>\n