I'd hate to be the Celadon safety manager right about now

You cant fix stupid.
Preventable accidents,like this,are quite sad.Cant really blame the company though.Company has a zero tolerance for alcohol at all their locations,and even off site,while on company business.We also get plenty of random drug tests.Its a shame,when innocent people die,at the hands of an alcoholic...especially one who gets behind the wheel,of a big truck.

 

Personally, I think the drug/alcohol tests are adequate, that's not the problem...

Sad situation all the way around..

 

I agree and all the laws in the world isn't going to stop whats happening on our roads not now not never.I didn't see that part in the article where this was prescription related.If so there was probably a warning label on it.I have taken some heavy medicine when I had a toothache while on the road.Lable said do not take while driving and do not drive until so many hrs have passed.Can't remember exactly what it said because its been quite some time ago.There's been a time I forgot to set the brakes at a trk stop.I was walking up to the trkstop and seen it starting to roll,Iyelled at a driver to plz stop my trk,lol.He ran over and set the brks.That was the first and last time.Now ill double check.

 

When it comes to life there is absolutely no room for human error.This driver will get some prison time I reckon.

 

All these detectives on this forum.. LOL. It was a DUI ,how do you know it was alcohol?
I was awakened in Denver by a city cop who told me to move my truck (even though I was legally parked, but thats another story). I told him I had taken an Ambien about 5 hours earlier, he didn't care so I asked "if I have an accident will I be charged with DUI"? As fuzzy as my head was, I was able to decide that driving was not a good idea.
Non of you know the situation in the OP, if you have ever taken Lunesta or Ambien then you know what its like to perform tasks while totally unconscious. It is definitely DUI but its also not like having a drink before knowing that you will be driving, that is inexcusable, a guy being woken up an hour after taking an Ambien is not a criminal, he could have been asked to do it.
If it was alcohol then he should go to jail, but non of you know yet.

 

he will go to jail for not setting his brakes and killing someone
length of prison sentence is only thing in question
based on his blood work

 

DUI is DUI, doesn't matter if it is booze, illegal drugs, prescribed drugs. It is STILL DUI, and is still STUPID, DANGEROUS AND AGAINST THE LAW. No matter how some fuzzy minded folks feel about it. There is NO DEFENSE and NO EXCUSE.

 

Life is real simple for some simple folks.