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DANGEROUS DRIVERS
* USA - Tenn. crash leaves 4 dead
MEMPHIS, Tenn,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer/AP -Oct 4, 2006: -- A tractor-trailer truck loaded with batteries was rear ended by an 18-wheeler at a traffic light and burst into flames, leaving four people dead, police said... Four others were seriously injured in Wednesday's crash, Police Sgt. Vince Higgins said. The dead and injured were not immediately identified, and the survivors were too badly hurt to talk with investigators, he said... "They were all out lying on the pavement," Higgins said... Investigators had not determined why eight people were aboard the trucks. Tractor-trailer rigs generally have no more than two drivers each...
* USA - Driver of truck that killed 7 children in Florida faces charges
FL,USA -Florida Times-Union/eTrucker -2 Oct 2006: -- The driver whose tractor-trailer slammed into a car of seven children from the same family, killing them and injuring 10 others when both vehicles then hit a school bus, will face felony counts of vehicular homicide and manslaughter for each of the victims' deaths, Florida State Attorney Bill Cervone said... The state's case against trucker Alvin Wilkerson, 32, in the Jan. 25 crash on Florida 121 will be based on authorities' belief that the man was sleep-deprived at the time of the wreck... Authorities previously said Wilkerson, of Jacksonville, Fla., was awake for 34 hours before the crash, except for a short nap, basing the conclusions at least in part on the Crete Carrier driver's bills of lading and cell phone records...
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