I’m not sure if this is a case of poor car maintenance, or if it was some sort of failure but I saw this while driving home today. Excuse the poor quality picture, its from my Nokia N95 camera phone. I talked to the driver afterwards and he was pretty upset and wondering how a wheel could just fall off. I asked him if the lugnuts were still there and he didn’t know.

As I glanced up the road where he came from, there they were, four lugnuts glittering in the road. So, what exactly happened? I’ve lost a lugnut before but never did all of them come off causing my wheel to fall off.