The video circulating was taken from the Fastenal parking lot on Kearney street which is right beside Fabick Caterpillar. I was there yesterday and some of the parts guys at Cat saw the whole thing. This was an accident plain and simple. Trump has a huge following in Springfield if there was anything besides an accident it would have gotten out in the public in a matter of hours.
As far as the car having redundancy in the brake system it is very easy for a driver to neglect one failing system and relying on the other which can also fail. This is an industrial area which is ripe with less than desirable people that routinely neglect safety.
Very few drivers have the sense of mind to be able to quickly respond to extraordinary failures.
I drove right by the spot where they came out of the parking lot into the road. They were not it “the woods” as reported. There is a small tree line and some overgrown vegetation between the parking lot they were in and the ditch.
This was not a “dry run” or an attempt to ram the “Beast”. They were about as close as Hillary was to Bill on election night at 2:00 am.
See my post #43.