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Negligent - Australia - Trucking firm fined $130,000
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Daniella Miletic -Mar 25, 2006: -- A trucking company that admitted it placed lives at risk by allowing a fatigued driver to work has been fined $130,000... The driver, Brett Leo Foster, killed four people when he ploughed into their cars in country Victoria. Foster had smoked marijuana, was fatigued and had been driving for 17 of 24 hours when his truck smashed into a row of stationary vehicles on the Murray Valley Highway on October 15, 2001. He was jailed for at least 6½ years after pleading guilty to four charges of culpable driving in 2002...
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