Tire Blowout problems of the 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse

Driving on hwy. 80 on dry road at approx. 60-65 mph, in fast lane, car started to shake, as we pulled over to the side of freeway, tire blew out. . . Complete separation of belt from sidewalls,both side walls still on rim, belt (intact) rolled down freeway. Tires less than 1 year old, and lots of tread left on tire. This caused damaged to the rim which is no longer usable. We will have to replace the tire and rim, but thank god no one was hurt.

After coming from a stop at a stop light, reaching a speed of around 10 mph, heard loud pop (almost like tire blowing out), tried to pull off to side of road, which at that point all I heard was grinding (almost like riding on the rim), went to put vehicle into park and as I reached the parking gear a loud grinding noise came from engine, put hazards on because was out on a busy street and was unable to pull off, got out to find that front-right ball joint had became disconnected from the boot/tire, and tire was shoved up into wheel base, and as a result had to replace ball joint, control arm and front-right axel due to the fact that the ball joint disconnected from rest of car. Luckily no one was hurt because I was on regular road at a low speed. Dt.

Driver side front tire blew out, causing driver to lose control of vehicle, resulting in accident/injury.