Dramatic footage of double fatality Donners truck crash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS00hb3zsVU


http://www.auburnjournal.com/detail/92623.html

The body of a second man was found underneath debris Tuesday morning at the accident site of a big rig rollover near Colfax Monday, officials reported.
The man, whose name is not being released pending notification of his family, was reportedly a passenger in the big rig, which rolled into a guard rail spilling its load of recylced plastic down the embankment near the Magra Road exit on westbound Interstate 80, California Highway Patrol offi-cials reported.
The driver, who was trapped inside of the truck's cab and was also killed in the accident, was re-portedly going 70 mph and passing another truck in the fast lane when he lost control and slid down an embankment, said CHP Officer Rich Ruiz.
"This morning, as the investigator was going over log books, (it was) determined there was possi-bly a co-driver involved," Ruiz said.
Ruiz said investigators also have video footage of the accident, recorded by a device on a Wal-Mart truck, which the driver of the big rig was passing at the time of the accident.
"The driver of the WalMart truck was doing 55 mph, so we estimate the driver (of the big rig) was going 70 mph when he approached a curve and lost control. You see in the video the trailer starts to fishtail. When the driver tries to correct, he is sent over the guardrail."
Battalion Chief Jeff Brand of Cal Fire said crews located the co-driver under the debris and extri-cated him this morning.
Brand said when the truck was overturned, the cab was torn off and wedged beneath the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself.
All westbound lanes were closed as a result of the accident, which occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. All lanes were opened by approximately 7:45 p.m., California Highway Patrol officials said.
Ruiz said the driver of big rig had only had his license for nine days.

 

I was thinking about that too. The article said that they didn't know there was another driver in the truck until they looked at one of the logbooks. Then they found him later under the wreckage. I seriously doubt a trainer would have allowed that situation to escalate to the point it did HAD HE BEEN AWAKE. The whole thing angers me and that Wal-Mart driver came pretty close to get taken out himself. Baffling that someone would be able to sleep while a driver of NINE days traverses Donners Pass.

 

Thank you Wal-Mart.

Kudos to you for installing cameras on your trucks and NOW finally people can actually see what kind of stuff we see EVERY DAY out here.

I once saw a YouTube video were a driver made a compilation of his truck getting cut off by cars and trucks. It was a few minutes long and very well done.