I am the chief of the North Hopkins vol. fire dept. Around 10 AM we were toned to a fatality head on collision, where a grain truck and an armored car collided. Sadly the driver of the armored car and the 18 wheeler had the same idea at the same time, which was to hit the shoulder of the road. The force was so intense it completely took the cab off of the chassis of the armored car. Unfortunately, the passenger in the wheeler was killed. The driver of the 18 wheeler had cuts and bruises but was ok. We flew the driver of the armored car out after an intense extraction. It was a challenge to extricate him. Still, we had him in bird before the golden hour was up.

The armored car had not made all of his stops but we were on scene for 9 hrs while crews picked thru all the feed grain to recover the 1.3 million dollars of change and bills. Quarters were ankle deep, we had 4 other calls there for wrecks over the next couple days because people were digging around. trying to find free money.

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