A truck driver who crashed into stopped traffic on a Colorado interstate last week, setting off a wreck that killed 4 people and injured 2 others, was formally charged with 3 dozen felony counts. He potentially faces decades in prison, a prosecutor said.
A truck driver who crashed into stopped traffic on a Colorado interstate last week, setting off a wreck that killed four people and seriously injured two others, was formally charged Friday with three dozen felony counts. He potentially faces decades in prison, a prosecutor said.
"Mr. Aguilera was observed by a number of citizens driving recklessly, swerving through various lanes of the road,” Weir, the district attorney for Jefferson and Gilpin counties, said at a news conference Friday.The truck with a trailer crashed into eastbound traffic that was stopped because of an accident ahead, and the crash caused a fire that engulfed vehicles., which occurred in the city of Lakewood west of Denver just before 5 p.m., involved 28 vehicles.
Aguilera allegedly said that he thought he was going to die and closed his eyes before hitting stopped traffic, according to the affidavit. Another driver on I-70 who saw the semi speed past told police that the driver was"wide eyed" with a terrified look on his face, according to the document.Aguilera, who is Cuban-born and lives legally in Houston on a green card, has a valid commercial driver's license out of Texas, officials said.
The DA said Friday that the semi-truck was completely destroyed, making a mechanical inspection impossible."There will be other means by which hopefully we can determine whether or not brakes were a cause of the accident, or some other cause," he said. Aguilera is also charged with one count of reckless driving and three counts of crime of violence. He is being held in lieu of $400,000 bail.
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