Watch Truck Crash Into Wichita TV Station: Breaking News That Breaks

WICHITA, KS — There’s breaking news, and then there’s news that breaks down the door. Both happened late Sunday morning at a Wichita television station when a man police said experienced a medical emergency careened out of control and crashed his pickup into the glass windows of the building.

According to police, the driver lost control after blacking out following a coughing spell. No one inside the building at 1500 N. West St. was injured. It appeared the pickup was northbound on West Street before it entered the KAKE-TV parking lot and then crashed through the front of the building, police said.

“Luckily, it wasn’t terrorism or a deliberate response to us,” station general manager Neal Davis told the Associated Press. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Wichita Patch, or click here to find your local Kansas Patch. Also, if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

People inside the building were shaken up.

“It scared everyone, that’s for sure,” KARE News Director Anthony Maisel told the Wichita Eagle. “There’s a lot of damage. Two big glass windows going into the front of the building were taken out.”

No citations were issued at the scene, and the driver was taken to a hospital for medical care.

Image via Associated Press video