A woman’s wheel that flew off her car as she was driving ended up crashing through the window of a Lexus dealership. TikTok user Grace Riecken (@graceriecken) documented the scary sequence of events, along with what happened afterward, in a social media picture montage. Riecken says that her issues began when she hit a curb in her vehicle. From the get-go, she said the noises emanating from her vehicle were “bad.” Following this, the second picture in her montage shows just how bad things really got. Her car is shown stuck on the side of the road, with its front passenger-side tire and rim snapped straight from its wheel. Its exposed wheel, brake, and rotor disc rest on the pavement. The next image presented in the video depicts a smashed Lexus dealership window. Resting on one of the floor mats is Riecken’s tire, lying flat on its side. In a follow-up video, Riecken delineates exactly what went down on that fateful day. “My Car is Shaking, and I Know it’s Shaking” Riecken says she was cruising in rush hour traffic on a Monday morning in Omaha, Nebraska. She says that she knew there was something amiss with her vehicle, as by 2021, when the incident happened, she'd been driving the mid-2000s Hyundai Santa Fe since high school. She says that the car started shaking, which persisted until the tire flew off. Thankfully, she says she was able to “white knuckle it” until she could get onto the shoulder without hitting any other vehicles. After phoning her boss to let them know that she was late, she called her fiancé (now husband) to let him know what happened. Finally, she gave her dad a ring, and he said he’d come help. Before hanging up, he told her to find the missing wheel. Where Did the Hyundai Santa Fe Tire End Up? Riecken says that she started wading through tall grass on the hunt for her tire. Not long after, a man approached and asked if she was looking for a wheel. She said she was, and he told her he knew exactly where it was located: in the showroom of the Lexus dealership he works at. OWNERSHIP STORIES Viral stories from across the web Our team of experts tracks what owners are saying about car-shopping, repairs, the daily driving experience and more on social media. Riecken’s first thought was that her tire must’ve broken through the front and injured an employee. However, the dealership worker assured her that no one had been hurt; staff members were upstairs for a meeting when they heard a loud noise from beneath them. When they went to see what it was, they found Riecken’s tire along with a broken window. She called her father to let him know what happened and says he cautioned her against admitting the tire was hers. But according to Riecken, this would’ve been a difficult con job to pull off, even if she hadn’t already told the employee the wheel was hers. After all, hers was the only car sitting next to the nearby road that was missing a tire. Who Paid for the Damage: the Lexus Dealership or the Unlucky Driver? Despite the drama and fear of her potentially fatal situation, Riecken says that the outcome was fairly mundane. She and the worker had a pleasant chat until her father arrived, at which point they grabbed the tire and left. Riecken said that handling the claim through her insurance provider was seamless. Despite the window purportedly costing $13,000 to replace, she didn’t have to fork over a cent out of pocket. She added that she wasn’t sure if her insurance rate went up because her parents paid for it until she got married a month after the accident. She did, however, get three or four points on her license. Luckily, Riecken told viewers that this wasn’t a problem, as she’s never had a ticket or been in an accident prior to this hair-raising ordeal. She added that by the time she uploaded the follow-up video, her points had been expunged, which seemed to coincide with her insurance rates recently decreasing. Gallery: Hyundai Santa Fe: See The Changes Through The Years Lexus Dealership: “But, Actually” Since the wheel traversed through an entire lot of cars, Riecken said her insurance provider worried that any vehicles on the lot were damaged. Miraculously, she was told that the runaway tire did not hit any of the luxury vehicles on the lot. But then, months later, she says the dealer claim that some of their vehicles were, in fact, damaged by the tire. She claims that her insurance company quickly squelched that argument. It purportedly told the dealership that it had gone on record stating that none of its inventory was damaged, and if it had wanted to file a claim, it didn’t make sense for it to take months to do so. According to Easton Law Offices, insurance companies expect claimants to report damage within 24 hours of an incident. This timeframe is corroborated by the financial literacy site Bankrate, as well. D. Miller & Associates says that different insurance providers have different policies and urges customers to refer to their agreements. It's important to also know that the statute of limitations to make various claims varies from state to state. Georgia, for instance, has a limit of up to two years for personal injury and four years for property damage. Minnesota is six years across the board, and New Jersey is two years for personal injury and six years for property damage. Typically, once a claimant agrees to a settlement, stipulations in the agreement prevent them from filing future claims for the same incident. Motor1 has reached out to Riecken via TikTok direct message for further comment. We'll update this if she responds. We want your opinion! 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