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2 killed 2 critical injuries September 3, 2014 EunB, a singer with the Korean pop group Ladies’ Code, has died after a rear wheel fell off her minvan, sending it spinning and slammed into a protective wall on a rain-slicked road in Incheon, South Korea, also killing her driver. 2 other members were critically injured.
Road Warrior: Loose-tire crashes occur all too frequently MAY 8, 2014 bouncing tire crashed through a bus windshield, critically injuring a passenger, on Route 17 in Ramsey on Monday.he tire of a 2009 Lexus bounced across the highway into the path of the southbound Pine Hills Trailways bus carrying 50 passengers. One passenger was seriously injured when the wheel smashed through the windshield. The driver and two others also were hurt.
More recently, on April 24 2014, a tire from a boat trailer broke loose on Interstate 690 in the Syracuse, N.Y., area, bounced into the opposite lane of traffic and slammed into the windshield and roof of a teacher's vehicle. The woman was killed and her baby daughter and a 4-year-old she was caring for were injured.
April 24 2014, Indiana, two women were killed when a rear wheel broke loose from their vehicle in Zionsville, causing the car to flip. Police said the lug nuts on the wheel were loose. Members of the driver's family said the tires were recently changed after a fender-bender. Police are still investigating.
In April 2009, a 73-year-old Connecticut man was killed and his wife injured on the Garden State Parkway in Clifton when a loose tire crashed through the roof and windshield of their Mazda.
1994 Seven months after the Pascack Hills teen was killed, a Newburgh, N.Y., woman escaped serious injury near the same Route 17 location in Paramus when a tire flew off a Chevrolet, bounced over the median and smashed her windshield. The Chevrolet driver was not ticketed.
"They probably came loose as they were being carried on the truck."
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