Tire Blowout problems of the 1999 Honda Civic

1999 Honda Civic, right rear tire blew out causing the driver to lose control. Vehicle went off the left side of the highway and struck the median barrier. (ohio traffic crash report# 10-0500-90) updated 09/13/bf.

I was driving my 1999 Honda Civic lx 4 door vehicle on a return trip from birmingham, al to atlanta, GA and about 45 minutes into my return trip the tread separated from the front right tire of my vehicle. I was fortunate that that although the 1/3 of the tread separated from the tire it did not blow out and I was able to get to an exit safely. I then proceeded to a walmart tire replacement center where I asked the technician if this was the first time he had seen this happen. The technician told me that this was the second time he had seen this issue within the past 2 months and that the other tire that was brought in for replacement had only been on the car for a few weeks (my tire was about 2 years old). I contacted firestone to inform them of the issue and was told that they could only take action if I could mail them the tire. I provided firestone the contact number for the tire shop where they could obtain the tire if needed for analysis (firestone was not interested in obtaining the tire). The tire that was involved was an fr 680.

While driving the right rear tire blew out. Consumer lost control, spun 180 degrees across the lanes into the left shoulder scraping against the guard rail damaging the vehicle. Dunlop p185/65r14 (ohio traffic crash report).

My wife's firestone tire blew on her 1999 Honda Civic and almost caused a major accident on i75. She is lucky to not have been injured. Also, her sister's firestone tire blew 1 year later on her 1998 Honda Civic while driving on another florida highway. The probabilities of such incidents happening to one family must be high unless there is a defect in these firestone tires. Luckily no one was injured but that is probably because these were not SUV's. Date of incident is estimated since it was a minor incident and no one was injured but it should be noted that these firestone tires may not be safe. Please also note that the make of these tires are unknown since they have been discarded a long time ago.