in the mountains. Scary shit. Glad he's retired.

and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.

and crushed a woman who was in the descending lane. She was dead before she knew what hit her. It hit me hard because I have family in the same area and that could have been any one of us on any given Sunday. She was returning to Kingston after visiting her elderly parents.

... we older folks have learned to appreciate them.

Truck stops. The load doesn't.

Always been an issue. They did put runaway truck exits on both ends. I wonder why it was not used

the only emergency exit I'm seeing is over 2-miles back up the mountain just before the Mays Park exit. However, further down he could have just ditched it off to the right into the desert.

I'm thinking his brakes may have failed at the last minute near the N. Desert intersection, so he didn't have any choice. I wonder if he tried his emergency brake.

I followed the highway down most of the mountain and that is one hell of a long incline, approx. 4-miles.

El Paso is lucky more people were not killed.