No one was injured, but four vehicles were struck by parts of a wheel that came loose on Highway 400 in Bradford today.
Ontario Provincial Police say the incident happened near the interchange at highways 400 and 88.
The wheel flew off a vehicle that had been recently repaired at a garage.
“Thankfully, everybody’s OK. It’s just damage to vehicles,” OPP Const. Scott Stratton said. “No charges as they had barely gone 40 kilometres. He just had it done recently — hadn’t gone far enough to even have it re-torqued.”
Photos posted by the OPP to social media show a wheel nut embedded in a windshield, among other damage.
“It shows how fast those things come off,” Stratton said. “You never know.”
OPP reminds residents to regularly check and re-torque their wheel nuts.
In a similar incident just last week, on July 19, two cars were struck by a wheel that had come off a van on Highway 400 between Mapleview Drive and Innisfil Beach Road. Minor injuries were reported. The van’s 47-year-old driver, from Cambridge, was charged.
