DURANGO, Colo.—The New Mexico Department of Transportation is looking into an accident that occurred when a tire came loose from a trailer and smashed through a vehicle’s windshield, killing a Durango man.
Transportation officials want to determine whether the trailer met state standards for a commercial vehicle. The 30-foot long, eight-wheeled trailer was hauling a John Deere backhoe.
Forty-four-year-old Ron Newton was killed about 1 p.m. Friday when two tires came off a southbound trailer on U.S. 550, north of Aztec, N.M. One tire jumped a divider and crashed though the windshield of the northbound BMW sport utility vehicle in which Newton was riding.
Thirty-four-year-old Ronnie Jacquez of Bloomfield, N.M. was hauling the trailer.
No charges have been filed.
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Information from: Durango Herald,
