My tire blew up.

I hit on the curb and it instantly just blew up. Had my wife and kids with me, we had just been 50km away, bought also groceries and on our way to vote in elections today. It happened just when we got to the school where you can vote.

My wife went to vote and then went home with the kids while I started looking searching a number on the internet for a towing service. It took my car to the tire service which is about 2 km away. My car doesn't even have a spare tire, seems to be common with more and more newer cars (I have an electric car).

The silver lining is:

- It happened about 2km from our home, so my wife and kids could walk home. I'd hate to think if it had happened earlier when we were 50 km away from home.

- It happened at a low speed (20-30 km/h) in a safe place so no injuries to us or the car. I drove maybe 20 meters without the right front tire to park the car.

- The towing service appeared in about 45 minutes even though it was Sunday. I was afraid it would take several hours.

- My car insurance will cover at least the towing. Not sure if it covers anything else, like the price of one tire?

- I guess I need to buy a whole new set of (4) tires, but I feel that is ok because these were almost 4 years old already so I guess it is time to buy new ones anyway.

It could have been so much worse, but I guess I had a bit of bad luck too as I apparently just happened to hit the curb where there was one part of it missing and there was a sharp edge sticking out of it.