This video footage was captured by ATS Euromaster to show the catastrophic effects of inflating a truck tyre which has previously suffered run-flat damage.

It forms part of an internal training DVD being used to reinforce the safe methods of operation which must be followed with all truck, earthmover and agricultural tyres.

The footage also serves as a timely reminder of why tyres should be serviced by professional tyre technicians.

Com: tyres : My step father used to be a School Bus Contractor in Howard County MD, which he owned 45 Buses, and one day a Buss came in that had a flat on the inter rear tire, which they pulled off in put air in, well, I was outside of the Garage and was walking by the tire and I heard it making a popping noise,

so I told that the tire was making a popping noise and they should not go out there near it because it sounds like it's going to explode.

So then my step father told me to go out and let the air out of the tire, I said I'm not going out there near that tire, so I walked up to the garage door window and was looking at the tire, I heard my step father say, God damn it, I'll do it then, and all of a sudden I seen my Uncle go up to the tire and he started letting the air out it,

I turned away a second and all of a sudden I heard a loud explosion and then a loud bang against the aluminum garage door, a when I turned my head back around to look out the garage door window come and see my uncle standing out near the tire anymore