Evening Paul.
That tyre incident was a complete farce.
The accident occured not long after I got off the A14 in the first place. Some 9 hours beforehand - they re-opened it about 30 minutes before I needed to get on it and they hadn't cleared up the bloody accident properly!
I saw it coming but had three choices:
Swerve into the left hand lane and hit a car.
Swerve into the right hand lane and hit a car.
Stay in the middle lane and hit a tyre.
I made my decision and I stand by it.
Although it did crack my bumper making my car fail it's MOT
Did a good job of shaking me up as well!
Got into the left hand lane as quickly as possible, slowed down to 50 and pulled off at the next service (thankfully only 2 miles away) and got a cup of tea with about 6 sugars in
Was supposed to drive 60 miles to Ipswich that night too...