Re: Arizona semi driver was 'actively using' TikTok before fiery crash that killed 5, cops say

[No Mercy]

Klaus Schadenfreude <klaus_sch...@null.net> wrote in
news:sookta$hqp$1...@news.dns-netz.com:

> He doesn't deserve to live. Cut him apart with a hacksaw one limb at
> a time.

A man was arrested Thursday in connection to a six-vehicle crash earlier
this year that left five people dead in Arizona after investigators said
he was watching TikTok while driving his semi when the crash happened.

Officers arrested Danny Tiner, 36, Thursday after a lengthy investigation
found him responsible, according to an Arizona Department of Public Safety
statement. Tiner drove a tractor-trailer that caused the crash early
morning Jan. 12, on a highway between Phoenix and Chandler. Two of the six
cars involved were commercial vehicles, the statement said.

Tiner was booked into jail on a $300,000 bond and faces multiple charges
including five counts of manslaughter, four counts of endangerment and one
count of tampering with physical evidence.

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An investigation into how the incident began found that Tiner had been
driving at 68 mph in a posted 55 mph construction zone while "actively
using the TikTok application on his cell phone at the time of the
collision."

In the statement, DPS said that Tiner said he received a message on his
electronic work tablet and went to look at it. When he looked back up,
traffic had come to a halt, but he was unable to stop in time to avoid a
collision.

Before Tiner's arrest on Thursday, DPS troopers and detectives conducted a
"knock and talk operation" at his home in relation to the fatal collision,
according to court documents.

The January wreck produced a fiery blaze that closed down Interstate 10
south of Phoenix for hours.

DPS spokesman Bart Graves said the collision left people trapped inside
their cars amid the fire.

"The crash with the five fatalities, we believe a semi driver that was
distracted did not slow for slowing traffic that was part of the second
crash and slammed into two vehicles in front of them. Another semi was
involved in that crash, it was a chain reaction. In all, there were six
vehicles involved." Graves said at the time. "One of the vehicles was
crunched in between the two semis, which caught fire. Another semi also
ignited."

Graves said the fire's intensity was "so great," it took firefighters
nearly four hours just to gain control of the fire.

Rescue efforts to recover the bodies couldn't start until nearly four
hours after the crash occurred.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/30/semi-driver-tiktok-
fatal-arizona-crash/70374591007/