airbag went off - engine stopped acceleration, potential rim damage to the left, frontDucks4brkfast said:You had a flat tire and called 911? Why not just change the tire?chico said:
OK fate is out to get me. It happened again. The earlier episode was a fuel pump gave out; that car is fine now. Late last night I'm driving to Hobby to pick up my wife. I hit *something* on the Gulf Frwy just outbound of 610, north of Broadway. Blew out my left, front tire. Side airbag went off. Luckily I was in the right lane and managed to get to the shoulder. Called 911, nobody showed. Called again, still nobody showed. It took 25 minutes before they showed up. I was safe after safely exiting the car and scooching over the right guardrail next to the abyss. What the heck does it take to get HPD or a wrecker to show up in decent time?
Going on 40 years living in Houston (I'm an old) and never had a need for freeway help before the last 2 weeks!