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Chad Lloyd Studham, 41, was driving a double tanker truck down the Cottonwood Canyon switchbacks Sunday when the truck's brakes failed and he went off the road. The truck rolled and Studham sustained only very minor injuries. Authorities suggest that had he not been wearing his seat belt he would have died. The tankers he was pulling contained a petroleum product known as distillate, at least 6,000 gallons of which spilled after the crash.