By A Texas Reader
Sat, Dec 18, 2021 12:46 p.m.
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ATR: Domingo Garcia is a s--tbag "attorney" from here in Dallas.
His wife Elba is a "dentist" from south of the border. She serves on the Dallas city council.
The truck driver was speeding.
Besides, brakes on vehicles just don't give out.
He was well exceeding the speed limit on Interstate 70.
I know that stretch of highway.
You take it to get from the Denver airport to the ski resorts west of Denver.
Besides, the Interstate has truck traps along its length in the mountainous areas.
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1 comment:
I don't pretend to know how the brakes of large trucks work, but at least on older cars, brakes DO give out. I have had the brakes on a Volvo suddenly fail and also on a Citroen. Modern cars with redundant systems are probably safe--if the seals fail and one system give out, the other should still stop the vehicle. Fortunately with the Volvo I was only a couple blocks from home and driving very slowly I was able to creep back home using the hand brake and replace the master cylinder. The Citroen only weighed 1100 pounds and the hand brake worked on the front wheels (where most car braking takes place) so the hand brake was adequate for stopping.
No doubt the truck driver was careless and stupid, but he was only trying to make a living and had no intention of hurting anyone. Having him die in prison is a cruel punishment. The country is full of people who deliberately killed someone and only served a few years in prison. Killers often seem to claim they made a mistake, but deliberately killing someone is a choice, not a mistake. This guy really did make a mistake. When he found out his brakes weren't working he should have taken a runaway truck ramp and parked his truck. That failure was his foolhardy mistake. He should have as second chance at a life, but never be allowed to have a commercial drivers license again.
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