Tire shelf life blamed for number of central Florida crashes

Orlando attorney Rich Newsome’s evidence warehouse is filled with wrecked cars. Their drivers and passengers were killed or left suffering catastrophic injuries. “The link in a lot of these cases is the age of the tire. Most people don’t know it, but tires have a shelf life,” Newsome told WFTV’s Vanessa Welch. Wrecks caused by tire separations have become a growing -- and, in some cases, fatal -- problem on highways across central Florida and the entire state.