Really bad luck with vehicles this visit. I was driving this one when the wheel dropped right off the vehicle and went rolling ahead into the ditch. Fortunately this happened in a flat spot and in a populated area so we weren't stranded and the vehicle didn't end up anywhere disasterous. No one was hurt either in the car or passers by. Furthermore there just happened to be a guy (in the blue suit jacket) standing around at this intersection, on a Sunday who was knowledgeable about cars (may or may not have been a mechanic, I'm still not sure). So we spent the afternoon sitting/standing around until the wheel was back on, and then droving, rather tentatively back to our point of origin. Again fortunately we had only gone a few kilometres, and even in that distance we had to stop twice to re-tighten the lug nuts.