The 1938 Cadillac limousine driven by PFC Horace Woodring collided with an American army truck driven by T/5 Robert L. Thompson.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton
Gay and others were only slightly injured, but Patton hit his head on the glass partition that separated the front and back seats.
He began bleeding from a gash to the head and complained that he was paralyzed and having trouble breathing.
He was taken to a hospital in Heidelberg where he was found to have a compression fracture and dislocation of the cervical third and fourth vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck and cervical spinal cord injury that rendered him paralyzed from the neck down.
Patton spent most of the next 12 days in spinal traction to decrease the pressure on his spine. All non-medical visitors were forbidden except his wife Beatrice. Patton had been told that he had no chance to ever again ride a horse or resume normal life, and he commented, "This is a hell of a way to die."
He died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at about 6:00 pm on 21 December 1945 at age 60.
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