This SAE International technical article describes a series of front-impact tests on tires to identify tire failure issues. Article includes a history of tire impact testing.

Article by Farrar & Ball’s Wes Ball and Kyle Farrar and Cliff Walston focuses on contentious discovery issues in the $32.8 million Toe v Cooper Tire trial verdict, including the importance of obtaining data from “substantially similar” tire products.

Multimedia presentation by Kyle Farrar and Wes Ball explaining how tire tread separation affects vehicle stability. This presentation includes embedded video of test drives performed in a 2001 Mercury Mountaineer with a defective tire.