A.D. Ibarra
-El Indio Highway
A freak accident caused damage to three vehicles and the sign in front of Dr. Sergio Zamora's office located at 2450 El Indio Highway.
When News Gram cameras arrived on the scene, two Eagle Pass Police department vehicles were on the scene and crews were cleaning up the debris from three parked cars which were struck by the glass truck which according to police, had been stolen.
The as of yet unidentified man who stole the large vehicle from the front of the Peter Rabbit truck stop located at the corner of Highway 277 and Highway 57 is currently under arrest and is pending magistration.
"The 2012 white Ford pickup is registered to a business out of Victoria. The suspect took the vehicle whose keys were left in the ignition and we believe the driver may have panicked when he saw a border patrolman," stated Humberto O. Garza, Public Information Officer for the Eagle Pass Police Department.
The vehicle which was fully loaded with automotive windshields and may have been top heavy causing the truck to veer off the road and across into oncoming traffic that fortunately avoided colliding head-on with the out of control unit.
The glass truck hit the front ends of four parked vehicles in front of the doctor's office which always has a heavy flow of patient traffic on any given day before plowing into the sign in front of the establishment.
Dozens of onlookers from a nearby adult daycare were also there to see what had summoned law enforcement units and an ambulance to the area.