🚛☠️ UPDATE: The trucker who opted to hit cars rather than a barricade had sentence reduced 100 years by Colorado governor🚛☠️
http://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-truck-judge-jared-polis-rogel-aguilera-mederos🚛☠️
From JSF: There has been a rise in accident deaths since the vax
I was going to skip this until CNN made a comment about the rise in accident deaths
I looked into whether or not vaxxidents increased the number of traffic deaths. I was looking for a 10X increase. But since they only increased by 27 percent while traffic decreased by only 2 percent (according to official stats, which I don't believe at all, but you have to link something to make a point and who else would you link to other than the DOT?) ANYWAY - Since the DOT only admitted to an overall increase of about 27 percent, I figured I could not make a reliable case, so I skipped it.
LO AND BEHOLD, CNN DID NOT SKIP IT, AND IS BLAMING ANTI MASK CONSERVATIVES FOR THE RISE IN TRAFFIC DEATHS.
SAY WHAT??!!??
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/12/13/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentence-jefferson-county-judge-semi-driver-110-years-prison-accident-killed-four/
About the truck driver that got sentenced to 110 years for an accident:
This is my opinion and opinions differ.
This is one case where the ruling went overboard. He was not speeding on purpose and was an inexperienced driver that overheated the brakes. I went over that section of road on Google street view and observed the road was very steep 1.5 kilometers before the crash, steep 1 kilometer before the crash and had enough of a grade to prevent slowing down absent brakes for about half a kilometer before the crash. I have also driven that road at least 15 times and it is all mountain until you hit the city. Unfortunately, the grade totally stops only about 200 yards before the accident scene, which is nothing for a semi. It was a legit accident, but it happened as a result of the driver not having sufficient skill.
It looked to me like motor brakes alone would not have been enough to start slowing the truck down until about a kilometer before impact with a truck going over 85 (speed matters on a grade using motor brakes.) And then, not by much.
The driver DID skip a runaway truck ramp he could have used but was probably panicked, and if it was me driving I would have opted for the ditch, which absolutely would have slowed it down (there was plenty of suitable ditch before the crash) but this is a case where bad judgement stacked on top of bad judgement led to a disaster and bad judgement is not a crime worth over 100 years.
Yes, he was an immigrant but if he went into the American system well enough to get his CDL, how can he be faulted for driving a semi?
It seems the news reports are burying the overheated brakes part of the story (which probably caused the massive fire) and I had to actually search for that to find it. That is what happened. There is LOTS of CNN quality reporting on this topic, where the key item is skipped and replaced with bias. Failed brakes should never equal 110 years in prison no matter how it happens or what happens.
He's not the first trucker to lose brakes there.
