Had My First Blowout Today

I was towing my fiver west on I-40 today near Hickory, NC when I heard a loud BANG! I hoped vainly it was a truck somewhere near me but that wasn't the case. I could see a small portion of my tires in my side mirrors and didn't see any evidence of shredding. Assuming the bang came from my fiver, I slowed down somewhat and kept going about another mile to my destination exit (fortunately the incident took place very close to my exit). I pulled over to inspect my tires and sure enough I incurred a blowout on one of the fiver's tires. Since I was very close to the RV park I kept going at a crawl, mostly in 1st gear until I reached it. I'm not worried about possibly overloading the tire next to it since I plan to replace them all before moving on in about a month.

I called my road service (Coach Net) and they sent a capable technician In reasonable time to install the spare. That's not the end of the story, though. As we were lifting the bad tire into the spare's position under the fiver the lifting mechanism broke. The technician had no choice but to cut into the plastic underbelly to see what was going on. It turned out a cotter pin had fallen out of place and after re-installing it we were able to lift the tire into position.

Well that's enough excitement for one day! I'm gonna relax the rest of the evening. AND, I'm sure glad there was no damage at all to the fiver. My habit of traveling 55 to 60 MPH payed off. :C

Here's the tire: