You also likely know that four people died that day.
At least ten others were injured.
The crash happened April 25, 2019, on I-70 near Colorado Mills.
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Last month, @GovofCO got involved when he reduced a 110 year prison sentence to 10 years for the driver of the truck
The 110 year sentence for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos became the subject of a national outcry re: harsh sentences
Rogel, for his part, apologized at sentencing.
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And yet... little has been said about the company that hired Aguilera-Mederos.
His CDL was less than a year old.
And appears to have little, if any, experience driving in mountainous terrain.
Here he is nearly running another truck off the road minutes before crash
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Turns out, the company that hired Aguilera-Mederos was fined, after the crash, $10K by US Dept. of Transportation
why?
Well, in part, it "did not ensure this entry-level driver received required training prior to operating"
It also didn't background him well
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Castellano 03 Trucking wasn't much of a trucking company.
It owned one truck (the one that crashed)
It was also based out of the home of a Houston woman named Yaimy Galan Segura.
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We now also know this... thanks to a 2019 deposition Yaimy Segura had with a Texas attorney
Much of what Segura did to learn how to start a trucking company came via the internet after talking to a neighbor.
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"Did you consult any professionals?"
"No"
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When she was asked why Aguilera-Mederos was even on I-70 that day...
she said he shouldn't have been driving that route
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Earlier that day, he arrived in Saratoga, Wyoming, via I-80.
He picked up lumber and could have gone back the same way (relatively flat)
Instead he went south.
Here he is in Granby. Tailgating another driver.
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Why did he go this way?
During an interview with investigators, he said he was looking for cheaper gas on I-70.
Again, the owner of the company never knew he went this route.
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Bill Bailey was 67. His wife, Gage Evans, and brother, Duane Bailey, feel defeated by the system that allowed a one-person operation to get insured... use an inexperienced driver... and then get hired to do a job by a broker that didn't know much about who they were hiring.
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Prosecutors say Aguilera-Mederos overused his brakes, underused downshifting, and caused his brakes to fail that day.
The company that hired him dissolved after the crash.
There is MUCH more to this story
We'll start to tell it tonight @9NEWS at 9 and 10.
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The one thing you have to realize in the ridiculous and messy world of the US health care system is that no one typically pays the list price for anything.
Not for ER visits. Not for CTs. And not for rx drugs.
The latter is a mess. And one that still confuses me…but…
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Earlier this year the Commonwealth Fund did a study on the 10 drugs Medicare (the govt) will now “negotiate” prices on.
It’s a remarkably nerdy read. But one that’s important.
As Colorado becomes just the second state in the country to ban use of the term “excited delirium” on police and autopsy reports… following our yearlong investigation…
I want to take a moment to explain the motivation behind our work.
While looking into deaths that happened during or shortly after prolonged prone restraint, we found many were explained not by use of force but by something known as “excited delirium”
Families often had to google the term after being told that’s why their loved one died.