“I just saw it at the last second,\u0022 man says in recounting incident
Mark, identified only by his first name, told OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt in a video posted to social media that he reacted quickly as he saw the wheel coming towards his car.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Calling it a “pretty scary situation,” Schmidt noted that the wheel “fortunately only took the side of — quite the damage.”“Check those wheel fasteners if you had them changed recently because of a brake job or because of the seasonal tire change,” he said. “You have to check your wheel nuts and make sure they’re properly torqued and tightened down and are not going to fail. This could have been deadly. And Mark is lucky that it didn’t go right into the occupant compartment.”
Last month, a 77-year-old driver was killed on the QEW when a tire from a boat trailer hit his car near Winston Churchill Blvd.
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