By adamg on Fri., 1/23/2015 - 10:15 am
State Police report a Dudley man suffered serious injuries around 6:30 p.m. yesterday when a tire on a car on the other side of the highway came off, traveled across the median and smashed into his windshield.
State Police say the man was heading westbound in Wayland when the left rear tire and rim of an Ontario driver's 1994 Lincoln MK8 flew off the car. The driver of that car was uninjured; State Police did not speculate as to why his tire and rim suddenly let go.
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This Joel Tangjerd, of London, Ontario?
By anon
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 11:28am
http://www.music.uwo.ca/future_students/undergradu...
I hope his cello wasn't damaged.
I saw this happen once
By perruptor
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 1:57pm
On Rte 2 in Acton. A wheel flew off of a westbound pickup truck, rocketed across the median, and hit the eastbound car ahead of me head-on. Fortunately, it was at the bottom of a bounce, so it hit the grille instead of the windshield, and the driver was unhurt. His car, not so much. Pretty scary.
Seen it happen at lower speed
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 2:27pm
I hope the driver recovers soon. The guy whose car lost the wheel is lucky that it was a rear wheel, too.
Here's a bit of a primer on how this can happen (although "20 year old car from the rust belt" is a hint): http://www.crashforensics.com/wheelandhubfailures.cfm
Several years ago
By roadman
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 5:46pm
I witnessed a similar thing happen a couple of car lengths in front of me at the start of the I-93 Lower Deck. Left rear wheel came off, bounced up in the air, hit the raised berm of the carpool lane as it came down, and rebounded off to the right side of the road.
How the tire and rim managed not to hit anyone in the process (this was about 4 pm on a Wednesday afternoon) was nothing short of amazing .
We lost a wheel once
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 2:39pm
Luckily (1) it was near home, (2) the car was not going fast, (3) this happened right in front of aservice station, and 94) people could chase down the wheel rolling down the street. We never figured out why -- but suspect that it was the fault of the tire place that had rotated tthe tires (etc,) a week or so earlier.
Probably was
By perruptor
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 3:19pm
I once had some tires changed, and by the time I got home (about a mile), one of the wheels was wobbling all over because the lug nuts were really loose. The wheel flopping around ruined the threads on the studs, too. I went back and complained, and the manager insisted that his guy had tightened the nuts properly, because he heard the impact wrench make tightening sounds. My last visit there.
Likewise
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 3:24pm
> My last visit there.
The same for us....
Who?
By anon
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 5:00pm
Which tire place? Sounds like somewhere other people might like to avoid.
Our problem tire place was in...
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 5:25pm
... Atlanta. ;-}
And mine ...
By perruptor
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 9:56pm
is long gone. That was back in the '70s.