Last Friday, a motorist was killed when a tire fell off a pickup truck and crashed through the windshield of an oncoming minivan, the AJC reports. The incident took place on I-85, north of Clairmont Road before 8:30 a.m.
Dekalb police said that a Dodge pickup truck was driving northbound when one of the truck’s tired fell off and flew over the median wall. The tire struck the minivan and killed the driver, a 47-year old woman who was in the southbound lane. The minivan driver, whose name has not been released, died at the scene while a 16-year-old passenger was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston for evaluation.
Incidentally, the attorneys at Pope & Howard, P.C. are going to trial in a wheel separation case this week. Poor maintenance of automobiles, motorcycles, and even roads can lead to severe, and sometimes fatal injuries like the accident mentioned above.
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