Truck driver sentenced to 110 years for accident.

Should the Colorado governor commute the sentence of truck driver that lost his brake

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Geeko Sportivo said:
When you are that scared, you do not know what you would do!

When you are doing over 90 in a runaway Truck going down a Mountain slope, a Truck Driver must already know his life is not near as important anymore as the lives of everyone else and take the ramp! TRUE DAT! Yes, he should have taken his own life instead of theirs. But that is a decision he made in about 1 second of time. He didn't have much time to think about it.

Taking the ramp is suicidal, at best. Many Truckdrivers are killled taking those ramps- more-so than not. That does go with the job though!

The idiot panicked and made the wrong decision.
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AProudLefty said:
Does it roll back when it gets to the top? :thinking:
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"How deep is the gravel in a runaway truck ramp?
48 inches deep
Flat, unpaved runaway ramps use gravel up to 48 inches deep to stop runaway. There are long ascending runaway ramps that head uphill. These use an arrester bed of gravel or sand combined with a gravity escape ramp (the uphill part) to stop a runaway truck.Oct 16, 2017"

Runaway Truck Ramps | Arrow Truck Sales, Inc.https://www.arrowtruck.com › blog › 2017/10/16 › guide..
 
Jack said:
"How deep is the gravel in a runaway truck ramp?
48 inches deep
Flat, unpaved runaway ramps use gravel up to 48 inches deep to stop runaway. There are long ascending runaway ramps that head uphill. These use an arrester bed of gravel or sand combined with a gravity escape ramp (the uphill part) to stop a runaway truck.Oct 16, 2017"

Runaway Truck Ramps | Arrow Truck Sales, Inc.https://www.arrowtruck.com › blog › 2017/10/16 › guide..
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Yeah that's what I figured. I've forgotten about that. Thanks.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Can the governor downgrade it to maybe serve two more years, and that's that?

Mr. Owl was in a jury shortly before we left STL. They convicted a guy of manslaughter and gave him one year in jail (not prison) for killing another guy in an accident caused by road rage and drinking. 110 years seems excessive in this guy's case.
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So the guy was sentenced to just one year even though he killed someone even though he was drunk and pissed???? Really????? That's fucked up
 
Jack said:
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Location! Location! Location! And every location has it's own different steep and grade!

Mountain passes in the Pocanos is one grade, and mountain grades in the Rockies is yet another.

As far as the option to take the runaway- there is no other option- you must take the ramp.

I just wanted to mention that not all runaway trails are like the one in the example you used, where the run-a-way was nice and smooth, as many in the Rockies are just trails made of large aggregate rocks and are death ramps. Colorado has some pretty serious death traps!
 
Eagle_Eye said:
In April 2019, the truck Aguilera-Mederos was driving lost its brakes, CBS Denver reported. He passed one of the state's runaway truck ramps as he descended from the mountains, a point the prosecution focused heavily on during the trial.

He then crashed into several cars stopped on eastbound I-70 in Lakewood, sparking a massive fire. The highway was shut down in both directions for roughly 24 hours, according to the station.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogel-aguilera-mederos-sentenced-colorado-traffic-crash/

Should the governor commute the sentence?
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Id like to know why he missed the truck ramp first
 
AProudLefty said:
Yeah that's what I figured. I've forgotten about that. Thanks.
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They are built for a specific reason. They aren't built on flat ground. They aren't built on inclines. They are built on long steep slopes ... that have a history of Trucks losing their brakes. BIG ARROWS usually point them out.
 
Jack said:
They are built for a specific reason. They aren't built on flat ground. They aren't built on inclines. They are built on long steep slopes ... that have a history of Trucks losing their brakes. BIG ARROWS usually point them out.
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Yeah. I see them all the time traveling back and forth in WV and VA.
 
Yakuda said:
So the guy was sentenced to just one year even though he killed someone even though he was drunk and pissed???? Really????? That's fucked up
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I agree but that's what the jury decided. Both the killer and the victim were at the same bar, both were drunk and had other ppl in the vehicles with them. They left the bar at the same time after words were exchanged. The victim's passenger taunted the other ppl and as they were driving he threw change and other stuff out the window at them. A chase on the highway ensued. The victim got off the highway and was followed. He tried to make a U-turn to get back on the highway and was t-boned by the killer's truck. Supposedly after the accident the killer went to rehab and AA and was sober, but there was testimony that he had still been seen in bars. I think he should have gotten more time, and served in prison rather than the county jail. Anything over a year would have sent him to a state prison. Some jurors thought maybe he learned his lesson.
 
I find it curious how some people think that a year of incarceration,
even in a minimum security jail,
is a slap on the wrist.

Minds obviously work in different ways.

I never spent any appreciable time in jail,
but I was in the military.
I know how slow time can pass.
Perhaps that's why I see things differently
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I find it curious how some people think that a year of incarceration,
even in a minimum security jail,
is a slap on the wrist.

Minds obviously work in different ways.

I never spent any appreciable time in jail,
but I was in the military.
I know how slow time can pass.
Perhaps that's why I see things differently
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They say being in a hole is like a week or more in prison.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I find it curious how some people think that a year of incarceration,
even in a minimum security jail,
is a slap on the wrist.

Minds obviously work in different ways.

I never spent any appreciable time in jail,
but I was in the military.
I know how slow time can pass.
Perhaps that's why I see things differently
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Also I am sure you've been in the most boringest of the boringest of classes. The second hand on the clock seems to move extremely and painfully slow.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I agree but that's what the jury decided. Both the killer and the victim were at the same bar, both were drunk and had other ppl in the vehicles with them. They left the bar at the same time after words were exchanged. The victim's passenger taunted the other ppl and as they were driving he threw change and other stuff out the window at them. A chase on the highway ensued. The victim got off the highway and was followed. He tried to make a U-turn to get back on the highway and was t-boned by the killer's truck. Supposedly after the accident the killer went to rehab and AA and was sober, but there was testimony that he had still been seen in bars. I think he should have gotten more time, and served in prison rather than the county jail. Anything over a year would have sent him to a state prison. Some jurors thought maybe he learned his lesson.
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That is not justice.

I sat on a jury in a civil case where again alcohol was involved. Two guys were drinking and started mouthing off to each other. One guy was huge 6'5" over 200lbs and the other was under 6' and 175 lbs soaking wet. The little guy was the instigator. The bug guy walked away but the little guy wouldn't let it rest. The big guy left the bar. After more drinking the little guy went looking for the big guy. He found him and attacked the big guy. The big guy beat the snot out of the little guy and the little guy was in the hospital for weeks. He tried to sue the big guy but we told him to screw. He couldn't leave well enough alone.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
I find it curious how some people think that a year of incarceration,
even in a minimum security jail,
is a slap on the wrist.

Minds obviously work in different ways.

I never spent any appreciable time in jail,
but I was in the military.
I know how slow time can pass.
Perhaps that's why I see things differently
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He killed someone while drunk and pissed. A year is bullshit
 
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