Originally Posted by justblues

I have a checkpoint story but it doesn't involve a bicycle (thankfully). I was on an Arizona highway at a busy time of day. It is a long straight highway and people often travel at very high speeds. There is a checkpoint on the highway, but it isn't often used. On this particular day, they had traffic diverted so that we had to go through the checkpoint. I was in my car waiting in a very long line to get through when I heard a loud noise. I turned my head just in time to see a wheel without a car go rolling past me. Right after that, other car parts came raining down all around me. Someone wasn't paying attention and didn't slow down in time. They impacted another car from behind at a very high rate of speed. It was not pretty. Despite all the debris raining about me, the rental car I was driving did not get a scratch.