Driver killed when car is hit by flying tire on Gowanus Expressway
Authorities say a driver has been killed when his car was struck by a tire that flew off a private sanitation vehicle on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn.
WABC says the victim was a building maintenance worker for the New York Police Department.
He was heading east at around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday when the tire came loose from the westbound sanitation vehicle. It smashed his windshield and caused him to hit the divider.
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