Armored truck hits oncoming SUV
REDMOND, Ore. - An armored truck hit an oncoming vehicle Monday morning, sending three people to the hospital.
According to state police, 35-year-old Dane Smith of Redmond lost control of the armored truck he was driving as he approached a car stopped on Highway 126 west of Redmond as the driver waited to make a lefthand turn around 9:15 a.m.
The armored truck veered into oncoming traffic, colliding with a small SUV driven by Jose Armando Aguirre Bernabe, 18, of Bend.
Firefighters pulled Aguirre Bernabe from the wreckage. He was taken by air ambulance to a nearby hospital.
The two people in the Garda armored transportation truck were taken by ambulance to the hospital with minor injuries, state police said.
The crash closed the highway for about an hour.
Why do people still use left-HAND and right-HAND? Are they still that stupid?
Is there a difference between "left hand turn" and "left turn"?
How do we know the car wasn't waiting to make a left foot turn? Or a left testicle turn? LOL!
Just curious.
@Mikey I tried really hard to come up with some type of logical answer to your question, and strained my brain.
@Mikey Sorry you ran out of money for a happy ending. Look ma no hands
Rmor vs civi..civi will lose
A very heavy bulletproof truck will win almost every time.
@RalphCramden yep, its obvious that a heavy armored truck will win against a lighter vehicle. I didn't think you people have the intelligence to figure that out, that why I restate the obvious. because its obvious to me that they will go through the crime scene with a fine tooth comb. Then it will look like oatmeal. then a little brown sugar and you have breakfestÂ
@RalphCramden Yeah. Kinda like playing chicken with a MAX train.
I'm shocked that nobody has questioned the immigration status of the SUV driver yet. I thought that was automatic when a latin name was printed.
@Oregon7812 You're right but ,if he had not have a valid DL than Mr Bernabe shouldn't be on the road and the accident will be his fault. Correct? I am sure Garda lawyers are looking at that right now.
It was a big money text...
I guess if you are carrying that much cash you Own the road..
We should ban left turns.
Stop trolling.
@HopeAndChangeÂ
UPS does.
Armored car drivers are nuts.. I've almost been smacked broadside in Salem several times by those idiots.  One almost got my son as well.Â
@Khre'Riov Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu their jobs are at the bottom of the food chain.
@Leinenkugle's  Some of them need to be in the unemployment chain
Geez you would think a professional driver would PAY ATTENTION so they don't get a surprise like a car making a left turn. At least now someone can get a job driving an armored Truck now that this person will be fired for driving stupid. Big lawsuit coming to  Garda Armored Transportation.
Oh...lookie another mysterious car crash ..... how could this have ever have happened when the article doesn't even mention a cyclist or pedestrian in the vicinity to take the blame. Clearly this is just another case of bad/incomplete reporting because everyone knows that drivers never hit anything or crash purely by their own negligence.  Â
@Icarus No cyclist or pedestrian, but a possible illegal.Â
8 Â tow trucks showed up to tow the armored car for free
What an idiot! Why would he swerve into oncoming traffic rather than to the right of the road to pass the car waiting to turn? Well, another commercial driver will lose his job. Idiot
Seems like there's a lot of bad driving going on out there today.I think I'll stay home.
Looks like the armored truck won.Â