A Roby Fire Department fire truck was involved in a one-vehicle accident Thursday evening, with the driver sustaining minor injuries.

Highway officials say 47-year-old Jeffrey L. Reed was driving east on Highway 32 about two miles east of Success in the department’s 1991 Grumman apparatus when it ran off the side of the highway, struck a driveway, and then returned to the road.

Reed was taken via Texas County ambulance to Fort Leonard Wood Hospital with minor injuries.

The fire truck, which sustained moderate damage, was towed by Arrington’s Wrecker Service of Plato.

Ashland Fire Department’s Engine 7 last month turned 100 years old.

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“On February 22, 1922, our Engine 7 was placed in service to serve and protect the great city of Ashland,” the department writes on Facebook. “Today marks the 100th Anniversary of Engine 7. To this day she is still operational and is enjoying her retirement at Station 3 in South Ashland.”

According to a report in dailyindependent.com, in the 1950s the fire truck went to the local Shriner’s Temple for use in parades, and then it turned up in a field in the late 1980s. It was then that a group of firefighters found the apparatus, brought it home in pieces, worked on it, and eventually restored it.

There are some restorations, of course, but the majority of the equipment on board is original.