One person is dead and traffic is backed up on both sides of Garden City Skyway in St. Catharines after a loose wheel from a pickup truck crashed into a vehicle on the QEW span Tuesday afternoon.

The highway was closed in the Fort Erie-bound lanes at Niagara Street in St. Catharines and in the Toronto-bound lanes at Glendale Avenue in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Ontario Provincial Police have asked motorists to avoid the area.

In a video posted shortly before 3:30 p.m. on X (formerly Twitter), OPP media officer Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said a wheel fell off a Fort Erie-bound pickup truck approaching the Skyway. The wheel bounced into the Toronto-bound lanes, colliding with a Toronto-bound vehicle with two occupants.

The driver, a 53-year-old man from the United States, died at the scene, while his

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