It’s a bad case of deja vu in Denton, where a fire engine has been hit by oncoming traffic for the third time in three weeks.
A pickup truck slammed into the fire engine early this morning, narrowly avoiding firefighters on the scene of an accident.
"A few more feet forward and it very easily could have killed the captain that was on that fire engine," says Officer David Boots, with Denton Fire. "He was literally just getting out of the engine when he saw this vehicle coming, jumped back in the engine and got the door closed just in time to get hit."
No firefighters were hurt in the crash, however, the truck driver was seriously injured. He was taken to the hospital. The relatively new fire engine was also heavily damaged, possibly even totaled.
It was just a little over three weeks ago that a semi truck crashed into two Denton fire engines in a separate incident, possibly totaling one of those as well.
Boots says officials were still trying to decide whether or not to spend the $87,000 dollars to repair it, and now they have this newly damaged engine to take into consideration as well.
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