Kanan-Dume Truck Crash Raises Questions About Burning Brakes
Written by 991KBU on March 8, 2018
PHOTO: Renay Fuller
Kanan Dume Road was reopened last night at 9:40 … almost exactly 12 hours after a truck driver narrowly escaped death in a scary crash.
Should that truck have been on Kanan Dume Road … which is closed to trucks???
It appears from photos that it was a three-axle dump truck.
It was not technically a “big rig” — those are five axles.
And a three axle truck is legal on ALL of the road … if it is below 10 thousand pounds.
And regardless of weight, trucks are allowed to make local deliveries as far south as the brake check pullout at the top of the hill.
The county highway people say there are 17 signs between the 101 and the top of the hill prohibiting overweight or four-axle-or-plus signs.
A side note … one driver who got killed there in the 1990s spoke Armenian … and his friends say he did not understand the road signs warning of the steep hill .…
where his truck lost its brakes.
The crash happened on a steep hill that is outside the truck ban area … but there are numerous very steep sections of Kanan Dume Road that are open to all trucks.
Did this truck lose its brakes?
We don’t have an answer to that.
We have a call in to the C H P to see if the truck driver will get cited.
