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Now, all 3 of my daughters have had "incidents" with cars where I didn't get the full story at first telling. They didn't lie, but there was just more to it. Of course, I think I had a few of those with my Dad too.

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I understand very well, having survived (barely) raising two daughters myself.

But I've actually seen a wheel in similar shape from hitting a "rock". In November, 1997, we were returning from West Virginia and on I-40 a few miles west of Memphis, TN, there was some construction being done on a bridge and dump trucks hauling the debris away. About 5 miles farther west, I was in the right lane, cruise control set on the speed limit, in a '93 Ford Escort station wagon, when an older couple in an Oldsmobile passed us and as they got past us, hit a chunk of concrete roughly the size of a basketball with their right front wheel. It launched that chunk of concrete into the air, right at the front of our car. Of course I hit the brakes, but couldn't do it fast enough. As I told my insurance company later, I'm not sure whether it hit the front of my car first or the pavement first, but it went under my car. When we got stopped, I changed the tire for the old couple who had hit it; they didn't even know whether they had a spare, much less where it was and how to change it, but their right front wheel looked much like your daughter's wheel. My car was driveable and I made it on home, in spite of it pulling hard to the left, and me being afraid it would ruin my front tires. But I think the only damage to the Olds that caused the problem was the wheel, while the damage to our car came to $2,830.29.

And of course, I'm sure there'd be no way to prove that big chunk of concrete came from one of the trucks hauling from the construction site.

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