Episode 182: How Did Rogel Lose Control? | Insight From a Trucker

Dec 23, 2021 · 50m 28s
Episode 182: How Did Rogel Lose Control? | Insight From a Trucker
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Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a an accident in 2019 that took the lives of 4 people and left 10 more injured. His brakes failed...

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Rogel Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a an accident in 2019 that took the lives of 4 people and left 10 more injured. His brakes failed going down Lookout Mountain on I 70 eastbound, a 6,000 foot drop towards the city of Denver. It's a very dangerous hill that some companies ban first-year drivers from because of their lack of experience. This was Rogel's first solo trip and he was loaded with lumber, making his truck somewhere around the 80,000 lb gross limit.

The prosecution argued that he had ample opportunity to avoid the crash and that he ignored all of those opportunities. But what actually led to the brakes failing and what was possibly going through his mind as everything unfolded? I've descended that same hill multiple times, and even did so as a rookie driver. Believe me, it's scary.

There is a petition that has gained over 4.5 million signatures to give Rogel clemency. The trucking industry is protesting this lengthy sentence with the hashtag #NoTrucksToColorado.

In this episode we take another angle--we talk about how the vast majority of sexual abuse cases are never investigated. Of the ones that are, very few offenders receive a lengthy sentence. Judges are often extremely lenient on sex offenders. We talk about the miscarriage of justice in this episode and what needs to change.

Why Society Goes Easy On Rapists:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/sexual-assault-rape-sympathy-no-prison.html

My memoire The Devil Inside:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1950948617/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Intro--
Film Glitch by Snowflake (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/56350 Ft: reusenoise

Outro--
I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/ramblinglibrarian/41284
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