2004F550
Charter Member
A triaxle lost its brakes this morning on a large downgrade and ran an intersection, veered into a coach bus, then fillped over dumping its load on a car. The crash caused a chain reaction and a total of 20 vehicles were involved and 4 dead as of now and 14 injured. The bus was a coach bus transporting commuters, this happened in the town next to me, about 5 miles from our shop. 3 cars burned so bad that they can't be identified. Both our ambulances from my town responded along with about 3 other towns and Lifestar the local lifeflight service moved 4 paients in two trips with two heliocopters. It was quite a scene, more like a bomb went off or something then a wreck. They found parts to the trucks brakes scattered down the hilll, pads, cams etc. We know the company and they are not known for their maintance. Anyway i'll report more if I hear more. Quite a sad scene, some fire/ems personal who have been around for a long time say it was the worst thing in terms of an accident in their careers..