heatwave side effect, delivery drivers for the post office (USPS) and UPS are roasting, and posting photos of the 120+ degrees in their vans during their work day... because neither delivery company installs air conditioning for their drivers

UPS delivery drivers are sharing photos of the thermometer readings inside their trucks, showing that the temperature can reach up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit as part of a campaign to highlight unsafe working conditions.

Thermometer readings were posted by the Teamsters Union this past Monday. One shows a driver’s hand holding a temperature thermometer and pointing it into the back of their truck, filled with boxes on shelves. The thermometer reads 121.4 degrees.

On June 25, a 24-year-old California driver named Esteban Chavez died after he fell unconscious in his truck due to the heat, the family believes the cause of death was heatstroke, according to The Guardian.

At the time, UPS said it would be “ineffective” to put air conditioners in the trucks due to making frequent stops. The union replied that federal guidelines “clearly recommend such cooling is in fact an effective means for employers to mitigate the risk of heat illness on the job”.

Later that same month, a Scottsdale, Arizona, homeowner released doorbell video footage of a UPS driver collapsing in front of his door as he delivered a package in 110F (43C) heat.

The Teamsters announced on Monday that they were kicking off their fight for a better contract with UPS, since the current contract would expire in exactly one year.

“UPS hasn’t been proactive at all on the topic of heat and that’s going to have to change. We’re demanding the company take action now to protect workers and this is going to be one of a number of key issues that we’re bringing to the bargaining table when we go into contract negotiations," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien, and with 1.2 million members, it’s one of the largest unions in the world.

"UPS is projected to pull in more than $100 billion in revenue in 2022 off the backs of Teamsters, and while management sits inside drooling over those figures, we’ve got members going to the emergency room," Perrone said. "These trucks and warehouses are infernos. UPS can afford to do the right thing and protect its workers. They need to stop making excuses and do it now."

The Teamsters represent about 350,000 UPS workers, and heat safety protections are a top issue in the union's negotiations as their contract is set to expire next year.

I haven't come across reports on Fed Ex or Amazon or DHS

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ups-drivers-trucks-temparture-hot-b2137584.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ggnv/ups-drivers-are-sharing-heat-readings-of-120f-inside-their-trucks

https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/national/union-rep-says-ups-is-sending-drivers-out-to-die-amid-heat

https://twitter.com/TeamsterRnF

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/02/news/companies/ups-air-conditioning/index.html

not only does this prove OSHA is not proactive, but it proves OSHA ignored the death of USPS delivery driver Peggy Frank in 2018, that I'm proud to point out I covered in news in 2018 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/postal-delivery-worker-dead-in-her.html and followed up on in 2019 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/08/peggy-frank-died-last-july-due-to-usps.html

keep the dream alive, if any kid tells some other kid what they "can't do" point out how almost nothing can't be done, especially in the Western hemisphere, that's why we're North AmeriCANs and South AmeriCANs

A 10-year-old girl got to fly a plane for the first time last week, thanks to UPS’s Wishes Delivered campaign, https://wishesdelivered.ups.com/

Taylor is going to be a UPS pilot: She knows this, and you should, too.

“When she was about 5, we took her to the Mall of America, and she got to fly in a plane, and she just knew that’s what she wanted to do with her life,” her mem said. “She was just amazed by it.”

She had taken Taylor to a Girls in Aviation day at Bowman Field, and the UPS Wishes Delivered crew was there, filming and scouting for a candidate, and they chose Taylor.

Wishes Delivered fulfills the dreams of children in various ways. In the past, a young boy who had a special relationship with a driver, was given a custom-made UPS package truck to drive around his neighborhood. The team once delivered snow to children in Texas who had never experienced snow before.

 This year, the company decided to inspire young girls in aviation, said Gloria Hatcher, a UPS pilot.

Capt Dave Smith is a flight trainer with UPS's other hub in Anchorage Alaska, he made a special trip to the Louisville UPS hub, called Worldport, to be a part of this event.

“Taylor is a wonderful pilot,” he said. “It’s a wonderful day to go flying, very smooth, very nice. … Great visibility. We flew toward Cincinnati, she flew over the new bridge, saw some marinas, just navigated herself right along the Indiana and Kentucky border.”



(Taylor's mom says that UPS donates a dollar every time the video gets shared on facebook, to Wishes Delivered, their charity.  Good, lets make them pay!)

“I’m going to be in the Navy, and once I get my license I am going to work for UPS as a pilot,” she said. “They made my dad’s dreams come true. They paid for his college, and without them, we would be in debt right now, and thanks to him, I’m here right now.”

Taylor said the fact that there are so few women pilots doesn’t discourage her at all.

“No, I think it’s more important for the whole entire world so people can follow their dreams and be who they are,” she said. “It doesn’t matter that people say that you can’t do something — it just means that you can do it. You can be better than what they say.”

Smith presented Taylor with a certificate for her accomplishment and presented her with her first log book, with his signature on her first flight lesson. The log book is real, and the time she spent in the air counts toward her future flight instruction.

Smith discussed important moments for a pilot with Taylor.  “I want to tell you, there are three flights that are very special to a pilot,” he told Taylor. “Your first flight; the second one is your first solo; and the third one is your final flight when you retire. So, you’re 10, I’m 47. When I retire, you’ll be 28. So, your goal is to fly my last flight with me.”

3 cheers for UPS flight instructor Capt Dave Smith, https://www.linkedin.com/in/captaindavesmith   that's way fucking cool to make this kid a log book and fill out her first flight, and ask her to join you on your last. Coolest thing I've heard all year, I think.

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If some kid says some ignorant stupid shithead thing to another, slap the negative kid upside the head. It's good for them, millions of kids have been slapped upside the head and turned into good people who stopped being assholes and went on to be good people.

This world doesn't need negative assholes talking shit, it needs more dreamers with ambitions, goals, and dreams. Things only get done when a dreamer with ambition keeps trying to make it happen.

The assholes who are negative, they become negative alcoholic assholes.



https://www.happiest.net/2017/11/28/10-yo-girl-gets-told-shell-never-pilot-hero-says-one-sentence-brings-tears/
https://insiderlouisville.com/metro/louisville-girl-10-flies-a-plane-in-a-ups-wishes-delivered-event/
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/so-you-want-fly-747-theres-simulator/2016/05/02/

since this occured a couple months ago, Taylor gets invited to fly now and then, and one person that invites her is the family friend Howard, who is 94, and still flying

https://www.facebook.com/cindimpe/posts/10155316685054624
http://www.wdrb.com/clip/13852962/ups-grants-10-year-old-louisville-girls-wish-to-be-pilot-for-a-day

interesting contrast of transportation methods, and eras, that the UPS company has existed in.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/51700165343/in/album-72157672968365917/

UPS got into the parcel delivery service in 1907, with bicycles, and in 1913 bought its first Model T

Before the 1950s, UPS wasn’t allowed to deliver packages in between both private customers and commercial ones (like department stores). Then, they acquired something called “common carrier rights”. Those rights made UPS the US Postal Service’s biggest competitor.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/old-ups-delivery-truck-photos_n_5584562 or https://www.wayup.com/guide/community/ups-520-sponsored-4-innovation-ups/ for UPS vehicle history

over 2,000 vehicles on the road in North Texas do not have air conditioning... the UPS spokesman says "we are on plan or ahead of schedule on all ... contractual agreements"

"Last year the company and Teamsters agreed to additional measures to help employees working in the heat; we are on plan or ahead of schedule on all of those contractual agreements," said UPS spokesperson Jim Mayer.

The agreement with the Teamsters included equipping all new vehicles purchased after January 1, 2024, with AC and making modifications to our existing package cars to improve airflow, temperature and comfort for our drivers.

notice the difference in the numbers... over 2000 without AC just in North Texas, but " A spokesperson for UPS sent the following statement to CBS News Texas": We have hundreds of vehicles with AC operating on the roads today (there are 76,000 vehicles in the UPS fleet)

That could be one of those many examples of official statements that sound like the problem is solved or under control, but in fact, it's only spin control. It sounds like one thing, but has no context, and so the fact is it's bullshit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ups-drivers-protest-mckinney-heat/

https://www.dailydot.com/news/ups-air-conditioning-heat-wave/

if this sounds familiar, it's because I am effing pissed that in the last year, the UPS company hasn't done shit to install AC into the old fleet of delivery vans, I know, because I posted about this 2 years ago https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/08/heatwave-side-effect-delivery-drivers.html then 13 months ago, the teamsters went on strike and got a contract upgrade, but it didn't have a real world result yet it seems obvious to me https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-teamsters-pulled-off-amazing.html

Did you hear of the UPS cargo plane in Louisville Kentucky, at UPS HQ "Worldport" , that crashed shortly after takeoff, as a wing caught on fire during take off, that caused an engine to fall off, and the plane to drop the 40 feet or so back to earth into the businesses under it, crashing into businesses (loaded with fuel) such as Kentucky Petroleum Recycling and a auto salvage business

The plane gained enough altitude to clear the fence at the end of the runway before crashing just outside Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport

Airport security video “shows the left engine detaching from the wing during the takeoff roll,”

Jeff Guzzetti, a former federal crash investigator, said  “It could have been the engine partially coming off and ripping out fuel lines. Or it could have been a fuel leak igniting and then burning the engine off. It’s just too soon to tell,” 

He said the crash bears a lot of similarities to one in 1979 when the left engine fell off an American Airlines jet as it was departing Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, killing 273 people.

Guzzetti said this UPS plane and the American plane were equipped with the same General Electric engines and both planes underwent heavy maintenance in the month before they crashed.

https://fordauthority.com/2025/11/ups-plane-narrowly-missed-hitting-ford-louisville-assembly-plant

https://apnews.com/article/ups-cargo-plane-explosion-louisville-deaths-af12da7f8611bad0bf0cb664de189250

a lesson learned by UPS

By obsessively tracking its drivers, UPS found that "a significant cause of idling time resulted from drivers making left turns, essentially going against the flow of traffic," according to Elizabeth Rasberry, a former UPS public relations manager.

 Drivers are instead encouraged to drive in right-hand loops to get to their destination. Today, many of the routes are designed to avoid left turns, and UPS says the policy has saved 100 million gallons of gas and reduced carbon emissions by 100,000 metric tons since 2004.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/60556/19-secrets-ups-drivers

it is shocking to learn that UPS has lost, and given up attempting to find, the 4 new wood wheels on the original hubs and irreplaceable Michelin rims of the 1911 National. If you can bring some brass knuckles to this fight, let UPS know they've got some looking around to do

Brian Blain left this announcement on the prewar racecar, gow-jobs, and speedsters facebook:

This 1911 National was headed to Indy where it ran in the first Indy 500, but UPS Freight lost the wheels.

 Four new wood wheels on the original hubs and irreplaceable Michelin rims.

After 3 weeks they stopped returning my phone calls and messages and suggested I file a claim.

How can they lose a pallet that is 4ft x 4ft x 5ft tall?

The worst part is they don't care and won't even respond.

Maybe some of you have some clout with UPS Freight, apparently I don't.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/451023215030222/permalink/1270560686409800/

if you can lean on UPS and help Brian and a historic car, his contact is https://www.facebook.com/brian.blain.756?fref=gs&dti=451023215030222&hc_location=group_dialog

Portland is trying a pilot program to see about electric scooters used for delivery... no doubt to bring down the additional emissions from Amazon and app deliveries

Nine years after their first e-bike pilot kicked off in Hamburg, Germany, United Parcel Service (UPS) is still testing whether or not electric-and-pedal assisted trikes can replace traditional delivery trucks in dense urban areas.

In partnership with PSU and the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, the initiative will deploy one electric-assisted cargo trike for a year. According to PSU officials at this morning’s event, UPS currently has two dedicated trucks that deliver packages within the university district. The intention of this new effort is to see if they can replace one of those trucks with an electric trike. UPS has launched similar pilot programs in recent years in Pittsburgh and Seattle and currently operates an e-bike deliver program in several cities around the globe including Paris, Berlin, London, Dublin, Rome, and others.

In their statement, UPS said Portland was a “logical choice” for the first U.S. deployment of an e-bike. As far back as 2008 the company has used traditional bicycles to handle deliveries during the busy holiday season. In 2011 they held a job fair in Portland and hired nearly 50 temporary bike delivery employees.

https://bikeportland.org/2019/11/06/ups-teams-with-portland-state-and-city-of-portland-for-e-trike-delivery-pilot-307279
hat tip to https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/

So, I wonder whatever happened to the supercops who opened fire on the UPS truck, the UPS employee, and the innocent bystander? The mainstream news stopped having anything to report after Jan 5th

https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1202961963137093632?s=19

reminder, Broward County Florida, Dec 2019, UPS employee Frank Ordonez was killed on Miramar Parkway just east of Flamingo Road.

Ordonez, a father of two, was held hostage by two thieves who hijacked the UPS truck he was driving after robbing a Coral Gables jewelry.

Four people were killed, Ordonez, the two robbery suspects and Richard Cutshaw, 70, of Pembroke Pines, an innocent bystander described by neighbors as “the nicest guy,” who was about to retire, reported FBI Special Agent in Charge George Piro

Officers and the suspects fired nearly 200 bullets. That is the preliminary number from the early stages of the investigation into the December 5 shootout that left four people dead, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent Troy Walker said

18 officers from at least five agencies were involved in the shootout including Coral Gables Police Department, Florida Highway Patrol, Miami-Dade Police, Pembroke Pines Police and Miramar Police department.

No tear gas or stun grenades were used. Just civilian cars as human shields.

Jarrod Burguan, a retired San Bernardino police chief of 27 years, said that police officers are expected to meet any threat and put themselves between the suspect and innocent people.

That is why they have guns, bulletproof vests, and volunteered to be police.

The three main factors investigators will examine is if officers were justified in using deadly force; if teamwork, cover and communications were used in an appropriate way; and what training the officers had, according to Burguan.

Notice he said nothing about police policy, police procedures, and police training.

No news seems to have reported if the 18 cops are still on patrol, working a desk, or heating up a BBQ while waiting to get back to work.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/12/10/funeral-service-tuesday-for-ups-driver-frank-ordonez-killed-in-miramar-police-shootout/
https://ktla.com/2019/12/19/nearly-200-rounds-fired-in-shootout-between-police-suspects-during-deadly-hostage-situation/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deaths-florida-civilians-police-shootout-call-procedures-question/story?id=67823929

https://bigwordsandsharpedges.tumblr.com/post/631152863912099841

Compliments to Jimmy Howard! Someone buy this guy a cold drink and a hot pizza! He is a UPS truck driver retiring after 6 million accident-free miles, and 43 years of driving

An Atlanta UPS truck driver is retiring after 43 years on the road without a single crash.

Sixty-six year old truck driver Jimmy Howard recently turned in his truck keys for good after driving for UPS accident-free

Howard started driving for UPS at the age of 22 in 1975, starting out as a delivery truck driver and then moving up to driving tractor trailers on a daily route from Atlanta to Mississippi — a 525 mile round trip. Over the years, those miles added up to more than 6 million.

https://cdllife.com/2019/ups-truck-driver-retires-6-million-accident-free-miles/

roadrailers, 1998 or 99

In theory, Amtrak being in the express business seemed like a good idea, in the sense that adding a few cars to the end of a passenger train would have few costs. But the equipment was not cheap, the switching moves shuffling the equipment at stations were time consuming and expensive, and the impact on passenger convenience was severe. Too much had changed since the days of the traditional pre-Amtrak headend mail and express business.

The need for reliable less-than-carload, and less-than-truckload service became obvious in 1996 when the UP and SP merged and melted down. "Then the CSX-NS breakup of Conrail resulted in more service meltdowns, so shippers wanted a reliable expedited service that the freight railroads couldn't provide. And UPS wanted to buy Amtrak, but that's another story." "UPS wanted expedited service nationwide, at truck-like speeds, and they still do. Amtrak is the only railroad that runs at truck-like speeds." 

There was a failed meeting with the president of UPS and several senior Amtrak executives, that resulted in UPS turning away from the potential deal for correlation between Amtrak for passenger service, and UPS for freight service.

It was George Warrington (Amtrak president, 1998-2002) who backed Ed Ellis' Amtrak Express initiative in which fleets of boxcars and RoadRailers supplemented the existing Material Handling Cars, with many of them trailing the Southwest Chief, Texas Eagle, Capitol Limited and other long distance trains. (In November 1997, Ed Ellis was promoted from Amtrak's Senior Director, Mail & Express, to an Amtrak Vice-Presidency)

It was David L. Gunn (Amtrak president, 2002-2005) who shut it down and also unilaterally withdrew Amtrak from its contract with the U.S. Postal Service.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747209384954604&set=a.369187376090142
https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/1hpp7so/amtrak_roadrailer_in_syracuse_new_york_possibly

https://www.flickr.com/photos/53192745@N05/5150081701/in/photostream/

https://utahrails.net/pass/amtrak-mail-express.php

What I learned today

 UPS can deliver to a post office box, but with the 26 pound pack of car parts I was returning, to New Jersey, it was going to cost me 200 dollars. 

The nice clerk at UPS pointed out that if there was a business address, that UPS dropped off at, it would cost less.

I saved 120 dollars by getting the real address, not the bullshit post office box in the next town over, not even in the same zip code. 

There's something fucked up when you get sent parts and they insist they can't send them you my post office box, but when I asked where to send the parts back, not only did they give me a post office box -proving they use the effing post office and could have sent my parts there instead of where the box wouls sit on the front step of the place I'm renting - they didn't give me the damn RMA and I had to call them back the next day for the UPS address AND get the RMA

The UPS plane crash (flight 2976) left a trail of destruction in an industrial area a few miles south of the airport, the jet was carrying 220,000 pounds of fuel, or about 38,000 gallons, and it got about 100 feet up at 210 mph

Above, NTSB drone footage, below, local news coverage with shocking fireball footage from dash cams

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-show-huge-impact-of-ups-plane-crash-2025-11

https://apnews.com/article/ups-plane-crash-explosion-kentucky-victims-55826920d64b0e051d9c594fb32ccaf8

For expert analysis, https://www.wave3.com/2025/11/07/they-just-didnt-have-any-options-retired-ups-pilot-speculates-final-moments-before-crash

Standing ovation for San Diego UPS driver Derrick West for doing some hero work!

He is the UPS driver whose quick actions likely saved the life of a man critically injured in a crash last week on San Vicente Road 

75-year-old James Ostermann had been driving his golf cart when the California Highway Patrol says it collided head-on with a truck.

Soon after, a UPS truck with two people inside, delivery driver Derrick West at the wheel, drove past the scene. On the ground was Ostermann, a grandfather and Air Force veteran, was surrounded by a lot of blood. Three people stood nearby.

Two ladies yelled, ‘He's bleeding out. We need to stop the bleeding,’” West said.

"Instinctively, I just started taking off my belt," West said, and applied a tourniquet to Ostermann's leg for several minutes before emergency crews arrived, and he was airlifted to a hospital.

Ostermann has since undergone four surgeries. His femoral artery was damaged, and he suffered fractures throughout his body, including his leg, pelvis, and ribs. He is now in stable condition.

Doctors said West had been five minutes from dying of blood loss.

The CHP says no arrests have been made. The other driver wasn't injured, and the investigation is ongoing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DMEg0Ivc2Y news outlet video not embedable.

 https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/ups-driver-saves-grandfathers-life-after-golf-cart-crash-in-ramona

one family took notice of the hard-working UPS driver in their neighborhood as they enjoyed a cookout together. Rather than simply let him pass by, they decided to flag him down and extend an invite to join them

The UPS driver walks up the driveway, and they encourage him to go inside and get his fill as he enters the garage. After securing a plate of food and a drink, the driver walks back outside to mingle with guests, shaking hands with the uncle who invited him.

https://www.upworthy.com/family-flags-down-exhausted-ups-driver-and-invites-him-to-make-a-plate-at-family-cookout-ex1

If you can, take good care of the people that take care of you. Amazon delivery, UPS, post office, waiters, janitors, etc. 

Thanks to all of you that have taken care of you favorite bloggers tip jar, sent christmas cards, and birthday cards! 

UPS is hiring nightshift mechanics, and a lot more

Shift: Night (6:00 PM - 2:30 AM)

 UPS is hiring individuals to work as Full-Time Automotive Mechanics. Fleet and diesel engine experience is highly desirable. Strong troubleshooting skills and transmission and clutch experience is also required for this position. UPS Automotive Mechanics must be at least 21 years old, proficient operating standard transmission vehicles, meet the DOT driving requirements and have a complete set of hand tools.

https://www.jobs-ups.com/job/-/-/1187/9097055/?&utm_source=careerbuilder.com&utm_campaign=core&utm_content=job_board&utm_medium=job_posting&howheard=P5004&ss=paid

UPS figured it out... holiday season is the time to cash in. They just added a dollar charge to every delivery to residentials in Nov-Dec. OR, they are offsetting the costs of additional holiday season employees and airplanes

United Parcel Service Inc. said Monday it will add 27 cents for residential deliveries from Nov. 19 to Dec. 2 and Dec. 17-23. UPS will add a fee of between 81 cents and 97 cents to overnight, second- or third-day deliveries for residential deliveries Dec. 17-23.

It will also add new fees for oversized packages from Nov. 19 through Dec. 23 on top of regular surcharges and a peak surcharge on some international air-shipping routes.

During peak shipping season the Atlanta company adds airplane and truck cargo capacity, often at higher short-term rates, and hires additional seasonal employees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ups-adds-new-fee-up-to-1-for-holiday-season-deliveries/2017/06/19/4e317128-5512-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html

if you live in the New York City metro area, you might see certain UPS trucks vinyl wrapped to look like Jawa Sandcrawler vehicles from Star Wars. Why? To remind consumers that there is Star Wars merch for xmas

 

https://insidethemagic.net/2021/10/ups-trucks-star-wars-sandcrawlers-rwb1/

https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/ups-trucks-in-new-york-now-look-like-star-wars-sandcrawlers/

https://twitter.com/justjenn/status/1447983770699649025

let's hear it for the UPS man!

Driver Sheldon Bonnell was making his daily trip between Idaho Falls and Jackson Hole, Wyoming on May 20 around 2 a.m. when he noticed what he thought was a brush fire about two and a half miles away. When he got closer, Bonnell realized that it was a structure fire.

Bonnell pulled over, then ran to the fence, yelling to try to wake the homeowners. The woman inside the home, Michelle Evans, was awakened by her dogs barking at Bonnell. She looked out the window and saw Bonnell trying to push her gate open. When she opened the window to ask what he was doing, he yelled back that her garage was on fire and she had to get out of her home.

http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/06/ups-driver-saves-ririe-idaho-family-from-fire/
http://cdllife.com/2016/top-trucking-news/ups-semi-truck-driver-saves-family-from-fire/

a Challenger and a Charger noticed each other on the I 5, and began racing each other... then shit happened, a chain of events, and 3 are dead

Dealio Lockhart, 35, is being held in lieu of $1 million bail and is due in court Tuesday, jail records show. Lockhart was driving a Dodge Challenger and admitted to authorities that he was racing a Dodge Charger southbound on the 5 Freeway when one of the vehicles lost control and triggered a violent chain-reaction crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The Challenger slammed into the UPS truck, causing the big rig to flip over the median, smash into oncoming traffic and explode. The big rig collided with a gray Nissan, sheared its top off and came to rest atop of a red Ford Explorer.

Lockhart has a history of excessive speeding. In 2012, he was convicted in San Bernardino County of driving faster than 100 mph, court records show. In 2014, he was convicted of speeding in Utah, according to the DMV. He was also involved in a car accident in November in Whittier, DMV officials said.

In the crash just after midnight Saturday, one of the racing vehicles slammed into a UPS truck, causing the big rig to flip over the median, smash into oncoming traffic and explode. The big rig collided with a gray Nissan, shearing its top off, and came to rest atop a red Ford Explorer.

The county coroner identified two of the three victims: Brian Lewandowski, 18, and Michelle Littlefield, 19, both of Valencia. The third victim has yet to be identified. But Teamsters Local 396, a labor union, posted on Facebook on Sunday morning that UPS truck driver Scott Treadway was one of the people who died in the accident.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-street-racing-crash-suspects-20160229-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-street-racing-popularity-20160229-story.html