One person has died after a wheel detached from a pickup truck and hit another vehicle on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) in St. Catharines on Tuesday, according to provincial police.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reported that the accident took place in the Toronto-bound lanes near Niagara Street just before noon.
“Around 11:44 a. m., Niagara OPP police were notified of a serious collision involving a flying truck wheel that came off a pickup truck that was travelling Fort Erie-bound on the QEW approaching the Garden City Skyway. That wheel bounced into the Toronto-bound lanes of the QEW, colliding with a Toronto-bound vehicle with two occupants,” OPP said in a video post on X.
“The wheel then bounced off that vehicle and ended up over the barrier in the City of St. Catharines.”
Initially, police indicated that the separated wheel had struck two vehicles but later corrected this to confirm it only hit one vehicle.
The driver of the vehicle impacted by the wheel, a 53-year-old man from the U. S., was pronounced dead at the scene. A 52-year-old man, who was a passenger in that vehicle, was taken to hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Authorities stated that the driver of the pickup truck that lost its wheel, a 33-year-old man from Niagara Falls, N. Y., has been charged with Detached Part and operating an Unsafe vehicle.
The Toronto-bound lanes of the QEW were shut down at Glendale Avenue in Niagara-on-the-Lake, along with Fort Erie-bound lanes between Niagara Street and Welland Avenue. The area has since reopened to traffic.
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