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KY_EnviroGuy

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16. Looking on Google maps......

Reply to Hawker123 (Reply #12)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 11:53 AM

Apr 2021

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.

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