This may be Cheney's way of playing Cincinnatus, the citizen-statesman who laid down his plow to return to Rome.

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They said that the brakes failed, as the truck driver was careening down a hill, that he tried to plow the truck into a number of unoccupied vehicles to slow it down but failed to avoid traffic at a busy intersection.

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