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(83,918 posts)2naSalit
(96,862 posts)mountain grammy
(27,809 posts)in the mountains. Scary shit. Glad he's retired.
malaise
(284,080 posts)and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.
malaise
(284,080 posts)and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.
marble falls
(65,390 posts)malaise
(284,080 posts)
marble falls
(65,390 posts)... we older folks have learned to appreciate them.
KentuckyWoman
(6,977 posts)Truck stops. The load doesn't.
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KY_EnviroGuy
(14,694 posts)RIP to the deceased. Fortunate it was not a bus filled with people........

Hawker123
(74 posts)Always been an issue. They did put runaway truck exits on both ends. I wonder why it was not used
marble falls
(65,390 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,694 posts)the only emergency exit I'm seeing is over 2-miles back up the mountain just before the Mays Park exit. However, further down he could have just ditched it off to the right into the desert.
I'm thinking his brakes may have failed at the last minute near the N. Desert intersection, so he didn't have any choice. I wonder if he tried his emergency brake.
I followed the highway down most of the mountain and that is one hell of a long incline, approx. 4-miles.
El Paso is lucky more people were not killed.