Several months ago, there was a nasty multi-car vehicle crash down the road from my local office. Essentially a heavy truck lost its breaks at the top of Avon Mountain, and rolled down US 44 into Avon, plowing head-first into rush-hour traffic, including a commuter bus.
After the accident there was quite a bit of ruckus about making Avon Mountain safer, including the posting of new, larger warning signs, the construction of “police ticketing areas”.and then not much else seems to have happened. Folks still seem to like to push 50-60 on the mountain, and cops are seemingly nowhere to be seen whenever I drive that stretch of road.
However, this Insurance Journal article reminds us that not everyone’s forgotten:
After a yearlong investigation, the owner of the runaway dump truck that slammed into a group of cars at the bottom of Avon Mountain in Connecticut a year ago has been charged with manslaughter.
David Wilcox, 71, who ran American Crushing & Recycling, was arrested at his Windsor home Sunday night.
In addition to four counts of manslaughter, Wilcox was charged with assault, tampering with evidence, fabricating evidence, interfering with police, and 23 motor vehicle violations. Those include having defective brake parts on the truck, which went out of control while heading westbound down Avon Mountain on July 29, 2005.