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| Alarm as cash truck rolls over |
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| Thursday, 03 January 2008 | |
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A Brink’s security truck transporting money skidded, hit a roadside bank and rolled on its side near Saint-Brieuc, Côtes d’Armor, causing near panic as gendarmes rushed to seal off the road for fear of theft. Two Brink’s employees in the truck were hurt and taken to hospital. The accident happened at Saint-Alban, at a crucial point on the sole road linking the departmental capital of Saint-Brieuc with coastal towns up to the beauty spot of Cap Fréhel. Traffic was held up for about an hour as Brink’s rushed a replacement truck to the scene to pick up the cash and forward it to its destination of Pléneuf-Val-André. Rennes Gendarmerie press office, which covers the area, was unable to say how much money the truck was carrying. The truck ended up on its right side, at right angles across the road, after skidding on a patch of diesel. The driver, the only member of the three-man crew unhurt, said: “I couldn’t do a thing. I had no steering any more, you’d have said it was a patch of ice.” His fellow guards were taken to Saint-Brieuc hospital, with injuries one to the head, the other to the arm. by David Boggis |
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