My dad just sent me this...the truck driver is his boss's dad.
"According to OSP Trooper Mark Jubitz, on May 4, 2012 at approximately 2:00 p.m. a 1996 Kenworth truck pulling a 53-foot semi-trailer loaded with 35,000 lbs of mixed farm products was northbound on Highway 197 approaching the intersection with Highway 30 on the east end of The Dalles. According to the truck's driver, (name removed to protect person...my lawyers made me do it), age 77, from Dufur, the truck's brakes failed to work and as he tried to control the truck and trailer, narrowly missing a parked vehicle on the shoulder and flipped onto its side. The truck and trailer slid through the intersection hitting several street signs, a lamp post and damaged 140 feet of guardrail in a wide gravel area on the west side of the highway."
Scary, I know! PTL he was unhurt. Now Mum won't believe you about semi-trucks' brakes going out differently :-P
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