A truck lost a wheel on the M50 this morning

Juwwi · 2018-07-19 22:26:07

Did anyone else here happen to witness this ? A tipper truck I presume was doing about 100km lost a wheel and the wheel just continued on down the road bouncing along but at speed . Luckily it didn't seem to cause any damage or crashes and the wheel went off on the Finglas slip road , I didn't witness how the wheel came to…

19-07-2018 10:26PM

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Did anyone else here happen to witness this ?

A tipper truck I presume was doing about 100km lost a wheel and the wheel just continued on down the road bouncing along but at speed .

Luckily it didn't seem to cause any damage or crashes and the wheel went off on the Finglas slip road , I didn't witness how the wheel came to a stop tho .

How would a wheel come off a truck ?

A badly fitted wheel before he took off or something ?.

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Lucky them kids weren’t playing on the M50 at the time.

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#3 19-07-2018 11:38PM

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Seen the same thing on the m50 about a month ago. Gravel lorry let one go. Luckily just the back left into the barrier.

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