Brinks truck rolls over

Brinks truck rollover traps three inside
Sunday March 30, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

A Brinks truck rolled off a highway in the city’s west end Sunday, trapping three people inside.

A firefighter uses a sledgehammer to smash the window of the armored vehicle to try and free two Brinks guards stuck in the back of the truck. Crews had a difficult time trying to free those inside.

“They look like they went for quite a ride,” said Toronto EMS worker Glen Gillies. “They got tossed around quite a bit in the truck and with it being an armoured car, you can imagine it’s a pretty rough ride.”

The accident happened late Sunday afternoon on the northbound Highway 427 ramp at Highway 409.

Crews also had a tough time trying to free the driver from the wreck, and he sustained non-life threatening head injuries. The trio was taken by ambulance to Sunnybrook Hospital.

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