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By Emily Ann Holman, HTRNews.com:
Police say a camera surveillance system shows a pickup involved in a collision that sent a car smashing into the garage door of the Manitowoc Fire Station on Thursday ran a red light at South 10th Street while traveling east on Franklin Street.
Manitowoc Police Lt. Charles Boldt said the video of the accident shows the navy blue Chevy Corsica entered the intersection just as the traffic light turned yellow about 9:15 a.m.
Boldt said the camera surveillance system, set up on the bridge crossing the river at 10th Street, monitors the intersection.
“When the truck struck the car, the light had turned yellow,” Boldt said. “After the vehicles hit each other, the light was red for southbound traffic (on 10th Street).”
Boldt said the truck’s driver, Jim Backus of Eau Claire, received a citation for the accident. Boldt said more information would be made available when a police report is filed.
The Corsica’s driver was sent to Aurora Medical Center. Boldt did not know the status of his injuries.
Backus told the Herald Times Reporter after the accident that he didn’t know what happened but said he had a green light when he entered the intersection.
The truck had a smashed front end and a flat left-front tire.
No firefighters were injured.
Deputy Fire Chief Gregg Kadow said the fire department is getting estimates on the garage door and ladder truck that were damaged in the accident.
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