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Call for wheels inquiry
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by Miles Brignall • A coroner has called on the Government to fund research into lost wheel syndrome after presiding over the inquest into the death of a man killed by a truck wheel.
Walsall Coroner Aldan Cotter recorded a verdict of accidental death on 36year-old salesman Andrew Jenkins, who was killed instantly on the M6 after a wheel "bounced like a Dambuster bomb" across the central reservation straight into his Rover car last June.
Cotter is writing to the Department of Transport and road haulage associations to express his concern over the case. "The problem of commercial vehicles shedding wheels has been recognised for many years," he says. "It is well known to the Government and something needs to be done."
DOT vehicle examiner Richard Dixon told the hearing that he had been unable to discover why the wheel had come off the Volvo rigid, driven by Geoffrey Paget and owned by Bilston-based AG Beech.
Dixon said the vehicle had been properly maintained but its wheel nuts has worked loose in a very short space of time. He said there might have been a manufacturing fault or the wheel nuts might have been tampered with while the lorry was parked outside the driver's house the night before the incident.
The hearing heard the company's records were thoroughly checked, and were found to be entirely in order.
—I More wheel loss cases in court, page 28.