A truck driver in Arizona distracted by pictures of scantly clad women on Facebook caused the death of Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Tim Huffman and almost injured 11 others in a horrific crash which was caught on a in-cab video recorder.


The driver of an empty fuel tanker was using his cell phone to look at photos of women on Facebook when he crashed into three police cars and two fire department trucks on Interstate 8 in May, killing an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer, records obtained by the Arizona Daily Star show.

Espinoza was driving 65 mph with the cruise control on when the crash happened. He initially told investigators he didn't see the police cars because he was looking in his mirror at a passing truck. He also said he never uses his phone while driving because it is against company policy, the police reports show.



However, information taken from the phone shows Espinoza was using the internet at the time of the crash, according to the reports.

He was in Facebook looking at "photographs of several women in provocative positions, wearing little clothing," "photographs of a woman in a low cut dress," and photos of a man "smoking something," according to the reports obtained this morning.

Espinoza had also used his phone to look at Facebook, YouTube, female escort web pages, porn sites and social networks on other occasions when he was logged in as driving, investigators said.

A camera on the dashboard of his truck shows his Samsung Galaxy 3 phone fly out of his hand in the crash, although he had apparently tried to cover the camera with his wallet, police say.

Espinoza is currently freed on $200,000 bond and is due back in Yuma County court in December.