It got him killed.
That spoke to the fact that there were too many friends of Soviet Russia in high places of “the West” back then.
Patton said if the HQ would give him the gas, he would start a war with Russia and make it look like it was their fault!
Patton's chief of staff Major General Hobart Gay had invited Patton to go on a pheasant hunting trip on the 9th of December 1945 near Speyer, Germany to lift Patton's spirits.
As they were driving along, Patton noticed derelict cars abandoned along the side of the road and remarked how awful war is and of its waste. The 1938 Cadillac limousine collided with an American army truck. All the other passengers in the car were were only slightly injured. However Patton had hit his head on the glass partition that separated the front and back seats. Besides having a gash in his head, he complained that he was paralyzed and having trouble breathing. He was taken to a hospital in Heidelberg where he was found to have a broken neck that rendered him paralyzed from the neck down.
Patton died in his sleep about 6:00 p.m. on December 21st, 1945 at the age of 60. The cause of death was fluid buildup in his lungs coupled with a heart attack.
He was buried in Luxembourg alongside oh some of his mean as he requested. Probably was the best way for him to go, after having survived the war itself, considering how his remaining days would have been lived had he survived the crash too, because he would not have been happy on a paralyzed state I believe. On 24 December, Patton was buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in the Hamm district of Luxembourg City, alongside some wartime casualties of the Third Army, in accordance with his request to be buried with his men. He was initially buried in the middle of a plot like every other service member, but the large number of visitors to his grave damaged the cemetery grounds, so his remains were moved to their current location at the front of the grave plots.