Mostly my friends have said that the truck running into the car seemed staged. They didn’t venture any conspiracy theories. They just didn’t feel everything was known about it. I think the first time I heard about this was in 1969 or 70 or 71. I was in high school.
They were at an intersection where a horse-drawn cart blocked the road and the view from a main road. Patton's driver became impatient and suddenly swerved around the cart, out into the path of the truck that hit them.
To say that this tragic accident seemed “staged” is somewhat moronic.
To correct a previous post; the movie is actually titled “The Last Days of Patton” and Patton died from an embolism while being prepared to be shipped back to the States in a full body cast.
It was known that Patton was dieing and they did not want one of America's greatest heroes to die on foreign soil, so they were preparing to ship him home to die in the USA.
(Google the history for yourself under the title I provided.)