Multiple people dead in fiery crash involving 24 cars, 4 semis, on Colorado freeway

do you even iPhone bro wrote:

i8tu761b wrote:

Traffic was already stalled due to a previous crash. Why not blame that one, instead of this guy?

Simply because he's a (legal) immigrant?

The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.

If only every driver in the country had a device that could show the route and alert the driver to congestion or stopped traffic ahead.

Or, heaven forbid, actually watching the road in front of you instead of looking at a phone. I wonder if the driver was texting at the time.

drive safely is an oxymoron wrote:

euphemisms by other names wrote:

"stationary traffic"

Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.

The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.

Previous crash was involved a school bus and semi-truck.

Reality says you can never blame any public transport (like school bus), even if they are at fault.

(E.g., any lawyer will tell you they'd rather be hit by a Greyhound bus than a city bus, and the City will never pay up)[/quote]

Why are school busses even driving on Interstates? Do they bus in kids from Wyoming/Nebraska into CO schools?!

Don't forget about the most abused factor in over-the-road truck accidents, fatigue/falling asleep.

Terrible news concerning the accident.

"stationary traffic"

Well, on a freeway (interstate I-70), that's a problem.

The 23-year-old semi-truck driver was heading down a hill when he slammed into traffic that had slowed due to a previous crash ahead of him, officials said.

Previous crash was involved a school bus and semi-truck.

Reality says you can never blame any public transport (like school bus), even if they are at fault.

Why are school busses even driving on Interstates? Do they bus in kids from Wyoming/Nebraska into CO schools?!

Maybe the bus (4:50pm local time) was taking students to some useless after-school activity such as a HS track meet.

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do you even iPhone bro wrote:

If only every driver in the country had a device that could show the route and alert the driver to congestion or stopped traffic ahead.

Or, heaven forbid, actually watching the road in front of you instead of looking at a phone. I wonder if the driver was texting at the time.

Prolly jerking to some pron

Legal Green Card holder wrote:

Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, of Texas, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, police said. He is slated to appear in court on Saturday for an advisement hearing. The charges stemmed from interviews and evidence,

Pretty ridiculous to call this "vehicular homicide" (blame-game) simply because the semi-guy's brakes or whatever didn't work going downhill and the Interstate was totally blocked following a previous school bus mishap.

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collision insurance wrote:

Tragic. Maybe we need to ban cars and particularly semis to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Having all that flammable material in small confined regions can't be a good idea at all when accidents happen.

Josh Laipply, the chief engineer with the Colorado Department of Transportation, warned drivers that they need to be more careful on the road.

"I think that we lose sight that vehicles are deadly weapons and all of us get a little careless at times and need to be more careful when we're driving,"

There's a huge chasm between "little careless" and vehicular homicide. I'd guess most wannabe manslaughterers I have to dodge (as a pedestrian) in city traffic on a daily basis are more "careless" than this semi-driver, but simply becuz his incident ended in 4 deaths he's in jail, while the 'hit-n-run' crosswalk terrorists and redlight renegades are consistently undeterred.

No one will see it but nothing will happen to the company that hired this loser and I wouldn't be surprised if he was back driving a truck before long!

Trucking industry continues to be protected at the expense of lost life and limb. Need much harsher penalties for accidents caused by trucks -- not just the individuals but really hammer the truck company that employed the perpetrator. These so called "professional drivers" are usually the worst on the road. I'll see them straying from their lanes and when you check their cabs they are looking down at their dicks or phones. Acting aggressively, changing lanes with no notice, and other nonsensical behavior. Always disobeying rules and signs as if they can't read, including the big one: stay in the right lane (especially on hills). I sure was embarrassed to admit after being in Europe they drive so much better than the good ol USA.....it was amazing the see all semi trucks staying to the right and holding a constant speed and how nicely that works.

Also : if the government hadn't been co-opted by the trucking industry, maybe they'd pay their fair share of taxes and tolls for tearing up the roads as well. They pay nothing close, and as a result it's one of the reasons the roads are crap and we are way behind of updating bridges, etc. It's a joke.

Pretty funny how over a decade ago technology was going to make traffic a thing a thing of the past and it appears to have gotten worse due to technology (texting, more uber/lyft cars on road causing congestion, etc.). Autonomous cars/trucks everywhere by 2020, huh? I've had the over for awhile.....looks like a winning bet. Like George Carlin (RIP!) used to love saying, the human race is pretty hilarious.

And he was here legally! The benefits of open borders!

Every single day we're reminded of the benefits of open borders, along with the media telling us how the pale people are enriched by the vibrant peoples of the sun. Sure, their attention to safety, their eh, records when it comes to driving (among many other things) are a lot different from the pale peoples, but in the end it doesn't matter. Diversity is what's important. Even if it kills you.

The people behind all of this are celebrating, hoping that the dead are palefaces.

You are one of the weakest hasbarats we've seen in a while. lol

Tired of Accidents and SemiTrucks wrote:

Everyone says we should go to electric cars, small cars etc. The problem is commercial traffic. Semi trucks are the most dangerous and also the most polluting vehicles on the road. We should be fixing the problem with semi trucks first.

We shouldn't be letting incompetent, impulsive, unintelligent people drive semi trucks. Just be honest.

Go to the link in the OP's post, and watch the video of the "suspect's" truck barreling down the road. And that's not exactly untypical of the semi drivers from Mexico. Just ask and HONEST person in California.

Dude, here's the actual link to the idiot speeding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci85Xuzipik

Maybe he was jonesing for a Corona and was trying to get to the taqueria asap for a beer and tacos de carnitas.

The problem is typically the idiot drivers in their cars who cut off the semis. Everyone is in such a big hurry so they cut around semis on the right side (their blind side) and then will cut into a tight space in front of the truck, which gives them even less room to stop. I've seen many bad accidents during the winter from this exact scenario. People need to be patient, wait for others to pass traffic, avoid driving alongside a big truck and certainly don't cut them off.

East Bound and Down wrote:

The problem is typically the idiot drivers in their cars who cut off the semis. Everyone is in such a big hurry so they cut around semis on the right side (their blind side) and then will cut into a tight space in front of the truck, which gives them even less room to stop. I've seen many bad accidents during the winter from this exact scenario. People need to be patient, wait for others to pass traffic, avoid driving alongside a big truck and certainly don't cut them off.

This may be a frequent problem, but it clearly isn't the case here. This dude just flat out murdered people because he felt like driving like an idiot.

Our school is right next to I-70 less than three miles away from the crash site. We were doing a workout when we started seeing black smoke billow into the air. We saw the second explosion from our school.

Pretty scary stuff that many of the families from our school were stuck in the traffic jam when it happened.

East Bound and Down wrote:

The problem is typically the idiot drivers in their cars who cut off the semis. Everyone is in such a big hurry so they cut around semis on the right side (their blind side) and then will cut into a tight space in front of the truck, which gives them even less room to stop. I've seen many bad accidents during the winter from this exact scenario. People need to be patient, wait for others to pass traffic, avoid driving alongside a big truck and certainly don't cut them off.

1) Are you a truck driver?

2) Did you even watch the video just posted in the post before yours?

Sounds like his brakes may have failed and even he was terrified barreling down the freeway. Closed his eyes thinking he was going to die as well. At least this is his story, the investigation will soon tell if this is true.