One evening about this time 10 years ago, i was driving home from work, i was in a bit of a hurry (and i was in my early 20's!!). Its was about 16 miles from work to home and i averaged about 70 mph on a 60 mph restriction!! I was passing everything that i cam up behind and didnt have a care in the world.
I breaked up to pull off the road into the lane that led to my home and the bottom ball joint on the drivers side suspension collapsed.
Basically what this means is that at the speed of about 5 mph the drivers side front wheel fell off my car and it couldnt be moved. It took 3 hours to rebuild the car on the side of the road enough that i could get it to my garage - about 30 yards away -in order to fix it.
when i got the car into the garage i sat down and shook uncontrollably for nearly an hour. i harmed neither myself or the car when the wheel fell off at 5mph but if it had fallen off when i was passing other vehicles etc at 70 plus mph ..................................
Needless to say the suspensions on my cars get checked regularly now.