Came completely detached turning into a gas station? Geez people. The thousands of miles you drove it before that where the wheel didn't feel quite right, then felt downright wrong, might have been a clue.
The last time I was at my mechanic some idiots pulled in with a wheel so loose they could barely get it into the garage. "Just started making noise" she said. A glance at the wheel made it clear she had been driving it a long time loose, breaking lugs along the way, and finally pulled into the garage when it reached crisis point. Stupid people do stupid things.