Cisco, that happened to me 7 times - 3 times with my wife, 4 with me... i lost the tire off the rim once, in Panama, in the middle of nowhere, hit a sharp edge of a concrete pothole going 90, the tire disintegrated by the time i managed to stop...

Other times, the remnants of the tires were still on the rim... but my conversations were almost identical to yours!!! hahahaha...

I must admit, losing a tire did not feel too extraordinary, car would just start pulling to a side - going 90, i understood that i lost tire, because it happened to me before, and i kept on driving, thinking where is that helicopter, that seems to be following me - it was the shredded tires sound...

check the CV boot, check the inner covers in the wheel well... she is lucky she was driving a bimmer, who knows what would have happened of it was anything else...

and you should know by now, women are different species - they talk and think totally different language!!!

lol...