Thanks AMCO. I tend to agree with you. I would have thought that unless he had a blowout actually on the corner, sorry, bend, then he would probably have felt it and held it anyway.

I have never heard of an inflated tube chafing on a tyre wall either, have you? But there again, I don't have the expertise or experience of others. I am amazed that a coroner came up with that, so was it from a police report?