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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 430809" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>I know someone who works in law enforcement near where this accident occurred, and I got the following information. The camera truck was a WalMart tractor-trailer, not the accident vehicle. The site is just east of Colfax, CA on westbound I-80. The speed limit for trucks is 25 mph, and ironically,there had been a digital speed readout for truckers at this site that had only recently been removed by CalTrans and replaced by a standard warning sign (not a good move). The WalMart truck is probably going right about 25 mph, so you can estimate the crashed truck's speed relative to the safe speed on the part of WalMart.Both the driver and co-driver were killed, and nobody even knew there was a second person until a logbook was found a couple of days later. Searchers went back to the crash scene and located the co-driver at that point in time. </p><p> </p><p>Amazing footage. I'm going to forward it to our RTD(feeder) department in the hope that they'll be more cautious in the future when driving in the mountains. Thanks for posting it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 430809, member: 12508"] I know someone who works in law enforcement near where this accident occurred, and I got the following information. The camera truck was a WalMart tractor-trailer, not the accident vehicle. The site is just east of Colfax, CA on westbound I-80. The speed limit for trucks is 25 mph, and ironically,there had been a digital speed readout for truckers at this site that had only recently been removed by CalTrans and replaced by a standard warning sign (not a good move). The WalMart truck is probably going right about 25 mph, so you can estimate the crashed truck's speed relative to the safe speed on the part of WalMart.Both the driver and co-driver were killed, and nobody even knew there was a second person until a logbook was found a couple of days later. Searchers went back to the crash scene and located the co-driver at that point in time. Amazing footage. I'm going to forward it to our RTD(feeder) department in the hope that they'll be more cautious in the future when driving in the mountains. Thanks for posting it. [/QUOTE]
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