Horrible crash in Lakewood CO, I70 closed both directions. 12 vehicles 4 semi huge fire

Sadly, if you read the comments on many of the local media Facebook pages, this guy has a lot of supporters. A lot of people feel his is being prosecuted unfairly because of Age/Skin color/Ethnicity, that he should get a slap on the wrist, and the owners of the trucking company should go to prison. Yep, the owners should go to prison, and enjoy the cell next to him for a very long time. When, as someone in the know, you point out why he is being charged so heavily, the comments are routinely "you have no clue", "you're obviously not a truck driver (as if any of them are)", "racist", etc.. On one page, I posted a link to the FMCSA regs regarding pre-trip and inspection and told that I'm lying. The vast majority who are supporting him, women and others with Hispanic names.

 

So 40 counts.

10 to 32 years per count. 1200 years maybe?

When the body dies, they can chop head and hook it up to life support for a while.

I'm going to stop typing here. I get spooled up all over again when I think on the enormous magnitude of this kid's outrageously disregard for people. It's safe to say he will not see Cuba again in this lifetime.

Colorado has a Federal Corrections South of Denver I think, it is literally under the earth. Carefully designed so that the prisoners committed to living their days out there will never feel the sun on them ever again.

 

Best I can tell he is just a really bad driver who doesn't handle stress well. Not El Chapo. I think on the back of the green card it even says you are allowed two free homicides.

 

As for the trucking company involved...
Trucking company involved in I-70 crash only carries $750,000 of liability insurance

 

He wasn’t going 85 to get there quicker or to harm more people.
He was going 85 because he didn’t have any brakes.
He was a new driver without much experience. He was young and lacked that special maturity and wisdom that comes with age.
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Maybe he was a member on this forum and learned that he should hate Mega companies and their training programs and that he should hire on at a small company and figure out how to drive on his own.

 

Maybe the kid got intoxicated on the precious 85 mph what? 12 miles or so from the runaway location?

All he had to do is stop.

The bottom of that hill was 3 miles.

 

There is no question that this guy lacked proper training. But we are not at all surprised are we?
Driving schools need to have a standard. 180 hours means nothing when a student is spending all that time sitting at a desk texting. There needs to be minimum training requirements before a driving test is even conducted.

Before you qualify for a road test you must meet the following:
250 miles of total driving.
50 miles of night driving.
75 successful backings.
2 sessions of mountain driving. Without this your license will have a restriction.

What else?

 

I guarantee you’ve went down a hill way faster than 85

 

He seemed to show no remorse or care about the deaths, you know he about to be a real authentic Cuban sandwich with extra pickle in the clink house.

 

Yes, I would've tried to get it stopped before the gravel, but if I couldn't, I'm taking the runaway ramp.

I thought about it before I went down my first mountain, which was Monteagle. My trainer told me what to do, then had me stop at the brake check area and wake him up at 2:00 a.m. so he could ride down my first mountain with me in case I screwed up.

I've studied all the runaway ramps in Colorado and Wyoming and Montana and Idaho. Some of them curve, some of them have big cables across your path, some go downhill, some go up. If I'm out of control, I'm going into whatever the DOT has provided.

If I wasn't getting any braking power, I would've used the gravel. I'm not buying any story that involves him discovering he didn't have brakes until after he passed the runaway ramp. That's just b.s. He knew before that, which is why he was driving like a drunken monkey in the video of him going past the runaway ramp.

If you aren't sure you would take the gravel, please stay off the mountain roads. I don't want you to kill my wife when she's driving down I-70 at the bottom of the hill.