Rogel Aguilera-Mederos received an outpouring of support on social media after being sentenced to 110 years in prison for an interstate wreck that killed four people—and a district court judge in Colorado is now reconsidering his sentence, as reported by CNN. 

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Aguilera-Mederos, a semi tractor-trailer driver from Houston, was traveling 85 mph on a Colorado freeway when his brakes failed in April 2019. The Lakewood Police Department said he crashed, resulting in a fiery 28-car pileup on I-70, killing four people and injuring others. 

Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 24, William Bailey, 67, Doyle Harrison, 61, and Stanley Politano, 69, were the victims. 

After being convicted guilty of four counts of vehicular homicide and 23 additional offenses in October, Aguilera-Mederos was sentenced to 110 years in prison on December 13.  

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Judge A. Bruce Jones said he was obligated to impose such a long sentence because of Colorado’s rules, which specify crimes of violence must be penalized with a mandated minimum jail sentence to be served consecutively. 

“The defendant caused the death of four people, serious bodily injury to others, and the impact of his truck caused damage to many more in our community,” said First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King, per CNN. “Knowing all of that, my office started the resentencing process the same week the defendant was sentenced, so that the court could consider an alternative sentence that was not bound by mandatory sentencing structures.” 

More than 4 million signatures have been collected on a Change.org petition asking the court to “Offer commutation as time served, or grant clemency to Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23.” According to the petition, Aguilera-Mederos has no prior driving or criminal history, and the accident was not caused by the driver’s purposeful or criminal behavior. 

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“Rogel is not a criminal, the company he was working for knew the federal laws that go into truck driving but they failed to follow those laws,” per the petition. “Rogel has said several times that he wishes he had the courage to crash and take his own life that day, this tragic accident wasn’t done with Intent, it wasn’t a criminal act, it was an accident.” 

The hearing to evaluate Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence is slated for January 13, with King saying her office will most likely suggest a term of 20-30 years, per CNN.