A Blowout on a Trailer Tire started the huge Redding, Ca. Fire

Wheel dragging o the road.
Indicates to me the driver didn't know he had a flat.
This means he didn't have a TPMS.
Is this contributary negligance?

In my opinion, there is no contributory negligence here. As far as I know, there is no requirement for a TPMS on any vehicle. Like most traffic accidents, it could have been avoided, but for whatever reason the driver chose not to have a system in place.

34 years in law enforcement, advanced accident investigator.

Sometimes, you can't control what happens during and after a blowout. DH had an inner dual on a box truck he was as driving blow out, by the time he got to the shoulder safely and out to look at it, it was on fire. Truck box became engulfed despite his attempts to put it out and before fire department could make it there.


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As a follow up to the original Redding, Ca. fire disaster story, there was a movement in Redding of fire survivors who mostly lost everything they had in their houses, to SEND GREETING CARDS OF FORGIVENESS to the older couple who were towing the travel trailer.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/...s-pour-in-for-couple-tied-to-wildfires-start/