Prosecutors said the truck driver was distracted to the extent that he failed to apply the brakes before he crashed into a car and killed a couple.FARIBAULT, Minn.
The crash happened in the northbound lanes of I-35 at a point where traffic had slowed down because of an upcoming merger due to road construction. According to the criminal complaint, Grimes' Volvo semi-truck, loaded with more than 44,000 pounds of cargo, slammed into the Hansens' Toyota Camry and a Chevy pickup truck pulling a flatbed trailer. The pickup driver suffered suffered minor injuries.
The complaint states crash scene investigators used dash cam video from inside Grimes' own semi-truck to determine that he was"watching a Netflix show as he approached stopped or slow-moving traffic as he approached a construction zone," according to the criminal complaint.