During a recent roadside check over 130 vehicles were checked with an alarming 1 in 8 vehicles found to have defective tyres. The defects ranged from worn treads, badly perished tyres to one vehicle that had worn through to the steal re-enforcing of the tyre. Nigel Weymouth from ATS Euromaster (TIC) stated that this particular vehicle was at a very high risk of having a high speed blow-out which could result in serious or even possibly fatal injuries.
