New Hampshire State Police say a wheel flew off a tractor trailer heading south on I-93, hit a northbound police cruiser then bounced back into the southbound lane where it struck another car, causing a crash that killed the driver.

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The accident happened shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday near the state liquor store in Hooksett, New Hampshire.  Police say the wheel assembly from a truck hauling a modular home for Crawford Homes of Houlton, Maine broke free. It hit the cruiser being driven the director of the state police, Col. Robert Quinn, who was not hurt.

Police say 40-year-old Kerry Anderson-Baker of Concord, N.H. was killed after the wheel struck her car.

The truck driver, 51-year-old Alan Condon of Oakfield, Maine didn't stop until after the Hooksett tolls and may not have known the wheel broke loose.

Source: AP

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