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DANGEROUS ROADS * USA: Eastboound I-10 & Illinois Tollway - TRUCKS ACCIDENTS
* Florida - Eastbound I-10 now open following crash involving 3 semi-trucks, another vehicle
(Video by ViralHog - Apr 17, 2015: Dozens of semi trucks and cars crashed into each other on I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie, WY -mile marker 342- during a blinding snow storm on Thursday, April 16th, 2015. A section of the highway remained closed Friday morning. No one was killed in the pile-up, but several people were hospitalized. The snow storm brought winter-like weather into the Rockies and High Plains Thursday into Friday)
-- The Eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 were shut down for nearly eight hours Tuesday after a crash involving three semis and a pick-up... The side of the tractor trailer was completely busted open. The truck's content was several hundred bags of onions that spilled onto I-10... The Florida Highway Patrol says the truck driver was driving east just past exit 203 when he ran into the median. As he tried to get back on the road, the truck jack-knifed and overturned... Then, troopers say a Ford pick-up truck hauling a flat-bed trailer ran into the semi; followed by another semi, and another semi... It is unknown what caused him to run off the road...
Tallahassee,FL, USA - WCTV, by Lanetra Bennett - Apr 21, 2015
* Illinois - Trucker gets three years in prison for fatal crash blamed on fatigue
-- On the one year anniversary of a fiery crash that killed an Illinois Tollway worker and injured a State Trooper, the same Trooper is calling for tougher penalties on the driver allegedly responsible...
Vincenzo Petrella was killed, and Trooper Doug Balder was severly hurt, when Renato Velasquez, who was driving a tractor-trailer truck, allegedly crashed into them on I-88 near Naperville... Balder suffered broken bones, was burned, and was in a medically-induced coma for six weeks. He is calling for reckless homicide charges against Velasquez... Velasquez is accused of falsifying his log books and driving over the legal number of hours, and is already facing several felonies. But, prosecutors say they have to go by the law and what they can prove in court... “I view it as a failure of the system to take care of us,” said Trooper Doug Balder... Elizabeth Sauter, the widow of Illinois State Trooper James Sauter, is also requesting reckless homicide charges for her husband’s death. He too died in a semi-truck crash. She says the driver allegedly responsible was also way over the legal amount of hours... Today the truck driver has been sentenced to three years in prison in the fatal crash... In February, Renato Velasquez, 47, was found guilty of driving a commercial vehicle while fatigued and two counts of failure to comply with hours of service requirements. He had also been found guilty of driving too fast for conditions and failure to yield to emergency vehicles, according to the station... The charges on which the driver was convicted carried a maximum three-year prison term. Still, prosecutors argued for six, saying that a previous drug conviction made Velasquez eligible for a longer term, according to the Tribune... During the hearing, Velasquez apologized for his actions, but Trooper Balder didn't find it sincere...
Dupage County, ILL, USA - Xeo News/CBS News - April 22, 2015
Labels: dangerous truckers, trucks accidents
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