Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fiery crash on I-70 near Denver; interstate closed in both directions

Overdrive – by  Matt Cole

A fiery crash Thursday afternoon on I-70 near Denver that began when a truck driver lost control of his truck and plowed into stopped traffic resulted in four fatalities and sent six to hospitals with injuries, according to local police. There were 28 vehicles involved – 24 cars and four tractor-trailers.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has also said that the interstate is expected to remain closed through Friday and into Saturday as crews assess damage and repair pavement that was damaged by fires caused by explosions during the crash. The crash occurred near exit 263 west of Denver. 

CDOT says westbound traffic is detouring using the off and on ramps at Denver West Boulevard, while eastbound traffic is detouring using 6th Avenue.

According to Ty Countryman with the Lakewood (Colorado) Police Department, 23-year-old Texas-based truck driver Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederon was traveling eastbound on I-70 and lost control of his truck before coming up on backed-up traffic around 4:50 p.m. Thursday, April 25. He didn’t stop and collided with several cars, Countryman said, and fires began as a result.

Aguilera-Mederon, who was driving a flatbed loaded with lumber, has been arrested and charged with four counts of vehicular homicide as a result of the crash. Countryman noted that there is no evidence of drugs or alcohol being a cause of the crash.

https://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-charged-with-vehicular-homicide-in-fiery-crash-on-i-70-near-denver-interstate-closed-in-both-directions/

5 thoughts on “Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fiery crash on I-70 near Denver; interstate closed in both directions”

  1. Ok, so we have a foreigner in the states killing people, not only that but a 23 year old Cuban, given huge responsibility because the asshats who hired him dont want to pay a pro what he or she rightfully deserves, scumbags all over the goddamn place trying to make a fast buck. We have untrained pieces of shit coming into our country, and scum bag employers who dont want to pay fair wages to American Nationals.

    They call us professional drivers, but they consider us UNSKILLED. Fk you and all who support this bullshit. ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO CALL THIS JOB UNSKILLED IN ORDER TO DECREASE YOUR OVERHEAD, GO FK YOURSELF.

    These employers who want to play like this, belongs in prison, or better yet, dangling from a short fkg rope in a high fkg wind.

    Any of you clowns out there that want to call this dangerous as hell job, unskilled labor, has their asshat stuck up their worthless ass. You think this shit is unskilled? Then bring your useless, lazy ass out here and give it a try, after you wet your pinkies and go home with your useless ass between your legs, remember one thing, only the skilled survive out here, most of the clowns who try this job fail miserably.

    Case in point above:

    Just because you take a shit in a executive restroom makes you some sort of skilled fkg labor? Why does your fecal matter smell just like the poor slobs in the tent out side your bullshit corner office suite with the bulkshit phony ass view?

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    3. Yup I knew the second I saw this that it was either a fkn Foreigner or some jihadi POS. I used to drive over the grapevine every week between NorCal and LA and without fail there would be a rig on fire cause these illegal tards don’t know how to use their brakes…and as u pass, 9 times out of 10 they suspiciously look very Latino in appearance..hmmm

      This could be any one of us on the road…and this new legislation they are trying to pass to get more drivers lowering the age of drivers is an attempt to do all of what u have enumerated Mark.!!

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