'Concrete Island' by J.G.Ballard

Soon after three o'clock on the afternoon of April 22nd 1973, a 35-year old architect named Robert Maitland was driving down the high-speed exit lane of the Westway interchange in central London. Six hundred yards from the junction with the newly built spur of the M4 motorway, when the Jaguar had already passed the 70 m.p.h. speed limit, a blow-out collapsed the front nearside tyre.