A multivehicle wreck last month involving two tractor trailers descending westbound from Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel injured five people — one critically — and closed Interstate 70 for more than eight hours.
The driver of one truck, who was later cited for reckless driving, reportedly lost his brakes and hit another truck, causing both to swerve across three lanes, through the guardrail, down the embankment and into oncoming traffic.
While the magnitude of this collision was unusual, the loss of brakes among commercial vehicles in the mountains is not. The crash illustrates the high stakes for truckers and nearby vehicles when things go wrong on the I-70 mountain corridor…