Car tried to kill me yesterday

As I was going home last night (Wed) I heard a couple of thunks under the car and thought it was just mud or a dead whatever I had hit in the dark.

Started to apply the brakes to turn off the highway to the side road for home and heard a rubbing sound followed by the car being pulled off to the right.

Was able to get her straightened out and limped home with a whole lot of rubbing noise and pulling to the right.

Got it on the cement pad of our drive way and took a flash light to it.

Found out that the nut that holds the strut arm to the lower control arm unscrewed and allowed the tire to hit the back of the wheel well.

Of course no one around has any parts for it.

Did somehow manage to have my local ford dealer find what I needed from some other dealers which is a miracle since these parts are discontinued by ford.

Soooooo they will be here on Tuesday so I can put my car back together and then get a new riders side tire.

Forgot to mention that it will cost 60 bux plus freight to get it here.

It just fucking pours round here.

my folks had the top nut on the strut backoff at hiway speeds on i35---dad said it was quite a ride--i hauled them home from the ks line--glad u made it safe

Yup buckets of rain suck big time. Just glad to hear nobody got hurt.

Rain rain rain, All day long here.
What kind of car? Sounds like a Tempo trick.

Mom & Dad's was an audi--i still think someone jacked with it--he had it in a shop just a few days prior to the incident---the nut and lock washers were still laying right beside the strut stem hole

ps--speaking of rain--had tornados on the ground on 3 sides of us almost all at the same time

The car that tried to kill me is a 90 cougar.