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Mar 10, 2007

Truckers': Acquitted or Guilty

* USA - In Washington state’s first securement case
Wash,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA)/The Associated Press -March 6, 2007: -- A trucker has been acquitted in what was reportedly the first jury trial under Washington state’s unsecured load law... A jury found Wilfredo “Jesse” De Jesus innocent of first-degree failure to secure a load. De Jesus’ attorney argued that no one saw a metal ratchet fall off the trailer of his truck in East Wenatchee, WA, last August, and that it could have come from another vehicle... Bruce Gearheart, Anamosa, IA, was killed when the metal strap ratchet went through the windshield of his car... Washington’s unsecured load law provides for misdemeanor charges in cases where unsecured objects cause injury or death...

* Trucker pleads guilty to involvement with Utah wreck, explosion
UT,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO,USA) -March 6, 2007: -- The driver of an explosives truck that crashed and exploded in the Spanish Fork Canyon of Utah in August 2005 has entered guilty pleas to speeding and causing a catastrophe... Investigators told that 32-year-old Travis Stewart was doing about 60 mph in a 40 mph zone when his truck lost control on a curve and overturned, shortly before 18 tons of explosives blew up... No one was killed, but 20 people were injured. The explosion blew a hole in Utah Highway 6 that was 30 feet by 70 feet..

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