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(83,241 posts)2naSalit
(94,042 posts)mountain grammy
(27,433 posts)in the mountains. Scary shit. Glad he's retired.
malaise
(279,458 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
(279,458 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
(62,646 posts)malaise
(279,458 posts)marble falls
(62,646 posts)... we older folks have learned to appreciate them.
KentuckyWoman
(6,910 posts)Truck stops. The load doesn't.
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KY_EnviroGuy
(14,627 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
(62,646 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,627 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.