I blew a front tyre on a Ford Taunus once. That trip (and the car) ended with a close encounter with a tree. I was lucky as hell to have no-one cross my path when the car rolled across the road.
I loved that car.
Sounds like you were lucky.
Do I understand correctly? You blew a tire on a Taurus and it flipped over? I leased a Taurus for a couple of years, for work, and had three blow outs, but never lost control of the vehicle. I always thought the Taurus was one of the better handling cars I had ever had, including my '70 Mach I muscle car.
It was a TauNus. Early 70s model. It didn't flip over... I lost control, immediately, and it went spinning (rotating along the vertical axis). I was thinking in Swedish for a while there...
I was incredibly lucky, for several reasons. First of all, as I said, there was no traffic crossing my path. Second, the back of the car hit the tree, not the front. Half a turn later and I'd have hit the front, with neck damage and more. As things turned out, the Taunus no longer had a trunk but the neck support of my seat kept me whole.
I was traveling about 80 km/h when the tyre blew.