Sounds like my buddy's diesel Olds.
He was pulling a steep grade with the car fully loaded.
1) A connecting rod broke.
2) It flew around and cut an inch wide slot out of the oil pan.
3) All the oil vented out the pan onto to road.
4) Then the rod punched thru the block.
5) All the coolant vented into the pan and out the same slot.
6) Then the rod came around and jammed in a thick web member.
7) The drive train stopped instantly. Leaving 45 feet of skid marks.
8) The drive train stopping that suddenly broke the cam shaft in half near the center.
9) The cam shaft launched forward shoving the sprocket thru the cam chain cover.
10) The camshaft also proceeded further in to the back of the water pump destroying it.
11) The sudden stop gutted the automatic transmission.
12) The gutted transmission sheared 3 teeth off the ring gear.
The CHP couldn't even push the car off the road. (hwy 17 at Lexington Reservoir)
I guess I could say the car had an coolant failure.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.-