A man is dead after a wheel detached from a pickup truck, crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a vehicle on the QEW in St. Catharines on Tuesday.

Ontario Provincial Police said the crash happened in the Toronto-bound lanes of the QEW just east of Niagara St. shortly before noon.

OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the front wheel of a truck that was headed for Niagara Falls detached, then crossed into oncoming traffic. The wheel struck a vehicle that was carrying two U.S. citizens, Schmidt said, and the 52-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

The passenger, a 52-year-old man, was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.

Police said the driver of the pickup truck who lost the wheel was not injured. Police said that man was the lone person in the vehicle.

It wasn’t immedi

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