A US Air Force officer has died after a tire exploded inside her sports car while she was on holiday in Scotland, police said. Captain Jenna Wilcox, 27, who had survived a roadside bomb attack on a recent tour in Afghanistan, was on a break with her husband when the freak accident happened last week. She was rushed to hospital but died last night.
It is thought the couple had changed the wheel on their BMX Z3 after noticing a bulge in a tire. They replaced it with the space saver tire - designed to get them to a local garage - but could not fit the full size one in the boot because it was full of luggage.
Capt Wilcox, of the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, sat with it on her lap inside the car. It is not known what caused it to explode. She died from her injuries at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, five days after the accident.
Her 27-year-old husband Scott is also a captain in the air force with 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. He suffered minor injuries in the tire explosion, which happened in Dalkeith, Midlothian, at around 6pm last Saturday.
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