Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Deadly Truck Brake Failure Crash

Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Deadly Truck Brake Failure Crash --- ===

April 25, 2019 Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Deadly Truck Brake Failure Crash  Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos is a Texas semi driver who was arrested and faces four counts of vehicular homicide after police said he caused a deadly 28-vehicle crash which killed 4 on I-70 in Colorado on Interstate 70 just after it descends from the mountains west of Denver. [1l He is a legal permanent resident from Cuba with a Green Card, a valid drivers license, no criminal record and there was no evidence crash was related to drugs or alcohol. Authorities saw no evidence the crash was intentional as he said he lost control as brakes were showing signs of failure and he closed his eyes in fear before his semi truck slammed into backed up traffic. The crash occurred April 25  The pileup involved 28 vehicles and multiple explosions.  held on $400,000 bond, told investigators the brakes on his semitrailer failed. [1l  Police say Aguilera-Mederos told them he was going only 25 miles per hour in the section of the highway where video shows him passing runaway truck signs and running a vehicle off the road[3] Prosecutors accuse him of driving recklessly at 85 mph [7]  where commercial vehicles are limited to 45 mph, police have said.[6]  Video shows the driver ignored or avoided multiple “runaway truck ramp” signs for stopping trucks with failed brakes with flashing yellow lights as he flew down the highway. [3]  He had a "free and unobstructed path" to the ramp but instead swerved away from it, police have said. [6]

The truck company inspections showed some brake issues and a total of 30 vehicle and driver violations resulting from 19 inspections over a two-year period [8] Lawyer Rob Corry says the driver was over charged, and says no one will drive if every accident becomes a homicide and a violent crime with a deadly weapon, and says it is "patently obvious that there was a mechanical failure in the brakes. There's no other plausible explanation. Once you rule out the driver being suicidal — which Rogel clearly isn't, and everybody agrees on that" [9]

He told police he suddenly noticed that he was driving 85 in a 45 zone (other drives say he might have been doing 100) His brakes failed, and his emergency brake failed so he failed to notice the brake failure exit for trucks (some say he swerved away) and before crashing he closed his eyes (other witnesses said he eyes were wide open and terrified).  His lawyer says it was an unfortunate accident but he was arrested and faces four counts of vehicular homicide.  In contrast to deadly incidents caused by illegal immigrants, the drive was Cuban national and is working in the U.S. with a green card.[2] krdo 4/25/2019 rear end crash At least a dozen cars, three semi-trucks involved in crash in Denver, Colorado. Multiple people died Thursday when a semitrailer plowed into stationary traffic that resulted in explosions and flames on a Colorado freeway, authorities said. ... The driver of the runaway truck survived.truck driver lost control while traveling east on Interstate 70 [for unknown reasons under investigation]

*Footnotes

  1. Prosecutor: Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Showed 'Extreme Indifference To Human Life   https://denver.cbslocal.com/.../prosecutor-rogel-aguilera-mederos-showed-extreme-in...  May 5, 2019 - Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos (credit: CBS). 
  2. 25th April 2019  Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos Colorado Semi Crash Erratic Driver   Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos is a 23-year old driver who caused a deadly, fiery 28-vehicle crash led to the death of four people.
  3. Truck driver arrested in connection with fatal 28-car crash appears in court [3] Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post Multiple people died in a fiery crash on I-70  By SAM TABACHNIK |  Denver April 27, 2019 allegedly told authorities that his brakes stopped working while barreling 85 mph down the highway and that he didn’t drive off the road because he didn’t want to roll his truck.  he lost control of his semi-tractor traveling east on I-70, and that his brakes stopped functioning. He said he noticed he was going 85 mph, the affidavit said, so he maneuvered to the right shoulder to avoid stopped traffic.  Aguilera-Mederos saw the shoulder was blocked by another stopped semitruck, according to police, so he chose to swerve back into the lanes of stopped traffic. He didn’t drive off the road, the affidavit said, because he didn’t want to roll the semi. “Rogel said he  thought he was going to die so he closed his eyes before hitting the stopped traffic,    ... Six people went to the hospital with serious injuries, as good Samaritans risked their own lives to rescue people from burning cars. The crash shut down the highway for more than 24 hours as investigators, lawyer believed mechanical problem and was accident but  could not confirm could not confirm if he had experience driving on steep grades. comment: So this moron would rather smash into a line of stalled vehicles than roll his truck? 
  4. Truck Driver in Massive Fatal I-70 Crash: "This is Not Just What They ...  Westword May 1, 2019 - Rogel Aguilera-Mederos told authorities that his brakes failed prior to a ... Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos , the 23-year-old truck driver from ... Cuban by birth ...passed by a runaway truck ramp going about 85 miles per hour, and when he saw traffic stopped ahead, he tried to move his vehicle onto the interstate's shoulder, only to realize that another semi was already there. Witnesses told investigators that the expression on his face around the time of impact was wide-eyed and terrified.  After the pile-up, which involved 28 vehicles, caused at least ten injuries in addition to the four fatalities and led to a closure of I-70 in both directions until the next day, Aguilera-Mederos insisted to authorities that his brakes had failed — and Fox31 subsequently reported that the company for which he drove had a history of brake issues on its vehicles
  5. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, semi driver accused of causing fiery I ... Denver Channel The speedin this area for a commercial vehicle is 45 mph
  6. Denver deadly pileup: Truck driver Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos ... CBS News  May 3, 2019  
  7. Truck driver in fiery Colorado crash charged with 40 counts, may face ... NBC News May 3, 2019 
  8. Brake Issues Have Plagued The Company That Owned The Truck ... Colorado Public Radio May 1, 2019    company that owns a semitrailer involved in a fiery pileup that killed four people near Denver had two trucks taken out of service for brake-related issues in the past year, including one about two months before the Colorado crash. March 6 inspection in Texas found that one of the five trucks owned by Houston-based Castellano Trucking did not have adequate brake tubing or hoses, a violation that required the truck to be pulled off the road and fixed.  In August, another Castellano truck was taken out of service for chafing or kinking of a brake hose or tubing,   company had a total of 30 vehicle and driver violations resulting from 19 inspections over a two-year period They say the truck had a "free and unobstructed path" to the ramp off the side of the highway but instead swerved away from it. 4,000 people are killed in the U.S. in crashes involving trucks each year. [8]
  9. Trucker in Fatal I-70 Crash Overcharged for Tragic Accident, Attorney Says Westword MICHAEL ROBERTS | MAY 24, 2019  Rob Corry, the attorney for Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, pileup was a tragic accident caused by a mechanical problem. He also contends that the charges against Aguilera-Mederos are excessive   Weir's office hit Aguilera-Mederos with forty charges: six counts of first-degree assault, 24 counts of attempted first-degree assault, four counts of vehicular homicide by reckless driving, two counts of vehicular assault by reckless driving, one count of reckless driving, two counts of violent crime causing death or serious bodily injury and one count of violent crime using a weapon. ... not against William Lennox for a late-night collision in Golden that killed Margret Braun, 73... In Corry's view, the message sent by treating a motor vehicle as a weapon — "Are we all driving weapons?" he wonders — could have serious repercussions. "Our economy runs because of the people who drive these large, eighteen-wheel semi-trucks. And  "sat down with law enforcement voluntarily for two hours, after spending hours in the hospital, and answered every question. He didn't take the fifth on any question, even though that was his right, and he didn't have a lawyer present, so there was no one filtering anything.
*Tags
  • Criminal charges
  • Deliberate crash - no evidence but avoided runaway ramp
  • Rear end crash
  • Brake failure suspected
  • Cuban suspect
  • Hispanic suspect
  • Mass casualty
  • No intoxication
  • Runaway truck
  • Speeding
  • Truck crash

*Reference 




Apr 26, 2019 - Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos is a 23-year old driver of a semi that caused a deadly, fiery 28-vehicle crash on I-70 Thursday afternoon which ...

*Sources
  1.  Multiple people dead in fiery crash on Colorado freeway | Fox News
    1. Truck driver who triggered deadly Colorado crash charged ... - Reuters    https://www.reuters.com/...colorado-crash/truck-driver-who-triggered-deadly-colorad...   (Reuters) - Police have charged a truck driver with vehicular homicide after he triggered a fiery multi-vehicle crash that killed a still unknown number of motorists, some of whom remain in the wreckage on an interstate near Denver, authorities said on Friday. ... A day after the ...  Denver multi-car crash: 4 dead, driver of semi faces vehicular ...  https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/26/us/colorado-lakewood-i-70-fiery-crash/index.html  4 people died in the Colorado pileup and a truck driver faces vehicular homicide charges. By Joe Sterling, Amanda Watts and Joe Sutton, CNN.  'True carnage': Semi truck driver charged in horrific Colorado crash ...  https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-killed-injured-colorado...crash/story?id... semi driver is facing homicide charges after four people were killed in a horrific, fiery crash involving 28 vehicles on a Colorado highway, ...   Semi-truck driver, 23, arrested after 4 people are killed in fiery crash involving 28 vehicles on Colorado freeway | Fox News  https://www.foxnews.com/us/multiple-people-dead-in-fiery-crash-on-colorado-freeway Driver in deadly Colorado 28-car-pileup charged with vehicular homicide ... The fire was said to be so intense that it melted the roadway and the metal off cars. ... At least four people were killed in the crash   4 people died in the Colorado pileup and a truck driver faces vehicular homicide charges | FOX2now.com   https://fox2now.com/.../4-people-died-in-the-colorado-pileup-and-a-truck-driver-face... 4 people died in the Colorado pileup and a truck driver faces vehicular homicide charges .... The fire was extinguished, but glowing embers and hot spots ... Driver charged with reckless homicide in fatal Route 3 crash.  https://www.foxnews.com/us/multiple-people-dead-in-fiery-crash-on-colorado-freeway

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