A motorist was killed Monday and his passenger injured when a tire dislodged from a passing vehicle on the Moreno Valley (60) Freeway just west of Beaumont and flew into the victim’s windshield, causing him to lose control and crash.

The fatality occurred just after 11 a.m. Monday on the westbound 60 near the exit for Jack Rabbit Trail, east of Moreno Valley, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Officer Ricardo Palomera said a 2011 BMW 328i driven by 54-year-old Philip Neil McKeehan of Riverside was traveling at an unconfirmed speed eastbound when his left rear tire “became detached and airborne.”

“The tire went over the center divider wall and onto Route 60 westbound,” Palomera said.

A 68-year-old Los Angeles man was driving his 2017 Toyota Sienna in the No. 1 westbound lane wh

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