A teen with bad brakes on his truck triggered a chain reaction crash on McMinnville Highway Thursday that left a couple of drivers shaken. The teen, identified only as a 17-year-old McMinnville resident, was heading southbound, back toward his hometown when he came upon stopped traffic on the two-lane highway. According to Highway Patrolman Rodney Whiles, the youth said he had recently had work done on his brakes and that they “weren’t very good” and that when he stomped on them they did not stop him in time.
Bad brakes cause wreck