Horrific Woodland I-5 Crash

I found this story to be quite disturbing, in part because the crash was so spectacular, but also because I go through that area reasonably often. Six vehicles, five cars aflame, three people killed, and all in the bright sun of midday:

She said it appears the crash began with a freight truck.

"He was the final vehicle that came up," she said. "It sounds like the majority of the other people were either already stopped because of the lane closures down the road. Traffic was slowing for that. It appears the truck came on and as traffic was slowing it went to make a lane change. I don't know yet whether it did it too late or just misjudged the distance."

Leal said it appears the truck may have been traveling at an unsafe speed.

"He just came into it too fast," she said.