A truck driver has no choice but to retire after suffering a seizure at the wheel, causing a crash into the mountainside.
The accident happened last Friday in Golden Colorado, marking the second seizure for 30-year-old truck driver Ramiro Loya, but his first one while driving his rig.
According to Fox 31 , Loya was on his way to Golden, Colorado to pick up a load when he suddenly began seizing.
“At first, I thought he was messing around but he wouldn’t respond and then five to ten seconds later I heard an impact. I heard him crash,” said Loya’s girlfriend Gabriela Lopez.
The crash into the side of the mountain mangled the semi truck and seriously injured Loya. Loya sustained gashes to his face, a broken elbow, fractures to his spine, and split tendons.
“He hauls material in the canyon in Golden,” said Lopez. “So, on the right side, there’s the mountain, and on the left side it’s a river. Looking at the picture you assume that he broke every single bone in his body. That’s how horrible it was.”