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Report: Expressway Truck Tire Damages Building

It happened about 9:50 a.m. by Vare Avenue in south Philadelphia.

 

A tire came off a truck Monday morning on the Schuylkill Expressway in South Philadelphia, damaging a building's roof, NBC 10 reported.

According to PennDOT, the tire struck another expressway vehicle about 9:50 a.m., then bounced and came through the roof of a Philadelphia Housing Authority building on the 1900 block of Vare Avenue.

NBC reported no one in the building was hurt, and a woman in the car that was hit was hospitalized but not believed to be seriously hurt.

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