It's at the base of a steep hill... but there's a sharp left turn you have to make before you come to the light. The hill is so steep that the truck must'a been braking on the decent. If the truckdriver knew his brakes were blown and went straight... he would'a avoided the packed intersection.
Then again, the engine-brake may have done that and he didn't know about the brakes till impact.
What a horror.
The article says truck brakes littered the hill, so he must have known he was in trouble way before he hit the intersection. It almost sounds like he tried to save his own skin by crashing into the cars in front of him to slow him down....?
The focus thus far has been on the truck company's history of negligence but what is this driver's history? I thought I had heard at one time that he was a relatively new driver. Has anyone else heard anything?