# Beware of flying WHEELS on the QEW **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [January 16, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475 "2015-01-16T13:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/1 "2015-01-16T13:15:00Z")
This window smash is scary. [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/2/0/20d30a39672f2999e85f6f994cc30909280fcd82.jpeg "Car Tire Smashes Through Windshield") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7wJEmKds0) This was a close call too: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/0/00baa2663f0d9881f9d5fcc7494d6c0f44ab3198.jpeg "2013 05-23 QEW Burlington to Oakville wheel (tire) jump out from westbound to eastbound") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHQaiu7AN2w) And apparently someone died a few years ago from this: > A Stoney Creek couple is devastated after their daughter, 20, was tragically killed when a tire came loose from a truck and struck her car. > **[CityNews](https://www.citynews.ca/2012/10/16/investigation-ongoing-after-flying-tire-kills-young-woman-on-qew/)** > > Local breaking news, traffic and weather, live updates and COVID-19 information. National news, business, lifestyle, politics. CityNews, Everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![GV1390](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gv1390/32/5432_2.png) [@GV1390](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GV1390)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/2 "2015-01-16T13:20:02Z")
I saw this happen in front of me once on Walden, thankfully I wasn’t on the bike. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/3 "2015-01-16T13:22:23Z")
shame, with a hyphenated name she was probably married and maybe had kids. i was driving on the qew a number of years ago when a tire on a transport truck exploded right beside us… it sounded like a bomb went off and the pressure actually pushed my car over at highway speeds. ---
**Author:** ![BOBBYGRV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/4 "2015-01-16T13:35:13Z")
I watched this happen just a couple weeks ago on the 90 offramp to the 190 heading downtown. Ford Exploder lost it’s wheel and it jumped the guardrail and almost landed on the lanes down below. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gus/32/5112_2.png) [@Gus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/5 "2015-01-16T13:43:47Z")
> [@bing](#): > > shame, with a hyphenated name she was probably married and maybe had kids. I don’t think the news would of left a juicy detail like “mother of two” out of the story. Her mother was just being disrespectful and has lack of commitment. Envisions of having established career like Anne Hathaway. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/6 "2015-01-16T14:07:21Z")
Found the video on YouTube and added it to the first post :tup: ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/7 "2015-01-16T15:01:05Z")
![http://i.imgur.com/xg51Fzk.gif](http://i.imgur.com/xg51Fzk.gif) [https://youtu.be/BivYc4XDVe8](https://youtu.be/BivYc4XDVe8) ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/8 "2015-01-16T15:07:28Z")
[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/1/6/165023c312fad84fb437add737f85d6f0255688d.jpeg "Close encounters with runaway tires") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDPprNgsjrM) > … And right at that point something large and black came right by my side, scratched against my leg and messed up my pants ---
**Author:** ![PbPrincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@PbPrincess](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PbPrincess)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/9 "2015-01-30T12:48:17Z")
That’s effin scary!!! ---
**Author:** ![MR.TWOSINISTER](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mr.twosinister/32/6198_2.png) [@MR.TWOSINISTER](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MR.TWOSINISTER)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/10 "2015-01-30T15:03:11Z")
Probably all the assholes that I told that their wheels were about to fall off when I worked at pep boys, mavis tire, and monro. Most of them ask how much? And then say okay I’ll drive it home. ---
**Author:** ![XwalkerX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/xwalkerx/32/7598_2.png) [@XwalkerX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XwalkerX)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/beware-of-flying-wheels-on-the-qew/271475/11 "2015-01-30T15:25:05Z")
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