If everybody with a truck did the right thing, I wouldn't need to tell them to fix the truck, it would have been done before it hit the road. Maybe the "hard working family" should have taken care of it before it went out on the road and maybe killed somebody. The "hard working family" live in a $750,000 house, and have speedboats, race cars, and drive Hummers, should have fixed their truck before it went out on the road. Or hired a professional driver, not a kid with car license.
Dump Truck Plows Through Intersection, Causing 20-Vehicle Accident and Killing 4 - New York Times
Wilcox sentenced to 6 years in prison
Updated: Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 10:59 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009, 5:31 AM EDT
Hartford (WTNH) - The former owner of a Bloomfield trucking company involved in the fatal Avon Mountain crash will spend the next six years in prison.
David Wilcox pleaded guilty earlier this year to four counts of second degree manslaughter, five counts of first degree assault and no contest to insurance fraud.
The 74-year-old former owner of American Crushing and Recycling is accused of rigging a truck with bad brakes and sending it out on the road. The truck careened down Avon Mountain in July of 2005, slamming into traffic at the intersection of Routes 44 and 10.
"This event that happened four years ago was not in any way an accident," the judge said to Wilcox. "You made a series of intentional choices which joined together to make this perfect storm that led to the Route 44 disaster. You knew that this truck had problems with its brakes, its clutch, its tires and its transmission."
Four people were killed. Eleven were injured.
"I can't imagine what the last four years have been for each of you," the judge said to the families of the victims that were in the courtroom for the sentencing. "Even after sentencing is imposed, your losses will remain just as profound as when you walked in here."
Authorities say after the crash Wilcox tried to reinstate insurance coverage for the dump truck.
Both Wilcox's wife and son have plead guilty to helping him cover up the fraud. They will be sentenced this summer and are expected to get some form of probation, not prison time.
Wilcox left the courtroom and headed right to a correctional facility where he will begin serving his sentence. He will be on probation for three years following his prison term.
