A Denver truck driver has been found guilty of five counts of vehicular homicide for crashing his semi-tractor trailer into a sport-utility vehicle carrying a family in Wyoming in June 2022, killing all five people. I received it.
A Weld County jury on Wednesday found Jesus guilty of five other charges, including reckless driving and not having a valid commercial driver’s license, in the crash on Interstate 25 north of Denver, KUSA-TV reports.・Defendant Puebla was found guilty.
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Investigators say Puebla’s truck was traveling at 116 mph when it collided with an SUV traveling at about 6 mph due to backing up traffic. The truck also hit another vehicle, injuring one person. Puebla was not injured, according to court records.
Downtown Denver skyline taken from the Jacquard Hotel rooftop in Denver, Colorado on November 14, 2018. (Photo by Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Puebla state attorneys argued that the company that owned the truck was at fault. Puebla testified that the brakes were not working and he tried to downshift to slow the truck down. Colorado State Patrol found the brakes were not working.
Prosecutors argued that Puebla had been driving recklessly for several miles before the crash and did not notice that traffic was slowing. Prosecutors said he should not have been driving with an expired license and that a pre-trip inspection should have shown the truck was unsafe to drive.
The crash killed Aaron Godins, Hayley Everts, and their 3-month-old daughter Tesley Godins, all of Gillette, Wyoming. Aaron Godins’ parents, Emiliano Godins and Christina Godins, were also killed.
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Sentencing for Puebla is scheduled for June 21.
