Smoking tire leads police to wheel separation incident on Hwy. 17 in Ontario
Police have charged a truck driver and his company after a wheel on the trailer he was hauling separated from the hub on Highway 17 in Ontario.
On Feb. 21 at about 11:15 a.m., members of the James Bay Ontario Provincial Police responded to a report of a commercial motor vehicle with a smoking tire on Highway 11 in the Town of Hearst.
Officers located the vehicle and observed that the trailer’s front passenger-side wheel had completely separated from the hub. Several lug nuts were missing and the remaining components showed significant wear, consistent with a major wheel separation defect, according to a news release.
Police charged the 28-year-old driver from Winnipeg with operating an unsafe vehicle and driving a commercial motor vehicle with a major defect in it or in a drawn vehicle.
The Winnipeg-based company was charged with wheel separation — commercial motor vehicle.
The driver and company are scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice – Provincial Offences court on June 16 in Hearst.
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