WHITPAIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPVI) -- A sudden and violent crash on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike left two men hospitalized Monday after a tire flew off a pickup truck and slammed into an SUV traveling in the opposite direction.

Kazi Zoha was driving a Range Rover with two friends on a trip to Bethlehem when the tire struck, just minutes into their journey.

"I saw it like flying toward to me. I didn't see it bouncing, I saw it like flying," Zoha told Action News. "It didn't even give me a second to make a decision."

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The tire came from a Dodge Ram traveling in the southbound lanes. It hit Zoha's SUV in the northbound lanes, shattering the moonroof and sending glass throughout the

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