Back in May, truck driver, Jorge Espinoza, crashed into three police cars and two fire department trucks on Interstate 8, killing an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer, because he was looking at chicks on Facebook while driving and didn’t see what was in front of him until it was too late. He is charged with second-degree murder and other crimes.
Alternate headline: “Hot girls on Facebook indirectly responsible for Police Officers death”. Tragic.
He was in Facebook looking at “photographs of several women in provocative positions, wearing little clothing,” “photographs of a woman in a low cut dress,” and photos of a man “smoking something,” according to the reports obtained this morning.
Espinoza had also used his phone to look at Facebook, YouTube, female escort web pages, porn sites and social networks on other occasions when he was logged in as driving, investigators said.
A camera on the dashboard of his truck shows his Samsung Galaxy 3 phone fly out of his hand in the crash, although he had apparently tried to cover the camera with his wallet, police say.
Other officers and medics who were with Huffman responding to an earlier crash with injuries witnessed the crash and tried to save Huffman, who had been sitting in his car. They pulled the windshield and dash off his car to try to help him, and they got a Jaws of Life tool out of one of the crashed fire trucks, but Huffman died in the car, reports show.
Investigators concluded: “Espinoza would have been able to perceive the danger in the roadway and not cause the death of Officer Tim Huffman, endangered the lives of 11 other emergency responders and destroyed six vehicles, including a new semi-tractor and trailer owned by his employer, if he had not chosen to distract himself while accessing Facebook from his cellular telephone while operating his assigned commercial vehicle.”
Later: A Bus Driver in Buffalo, New York prevented a suicidal woman from jumping off a bridge and has been given $10,000 by Donald Trump for being a hero.
Darnell Barton, 37, had just picked up 20 high school students on the afternoon of October 18 and was driving over a bridge when he spotted a woman standing along the railing on an overpass, leaning over the traffic below.
He pulled over and counseled her into coming down, leading real estate mogul Trump to write a letter saying: ‘Your quick thinking resulted in a life being saved and for that you should be rewarded.’
Here are the videos from both events: