Report: Truck driver in deadly crash tested positive for drugs

Crime lab says Dallas man consumed cocaine, marijuana

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette

In this November 2009 file photo, Arkansas State Police Sgt. John Bishop relays information about a five-vehicle, four-fatality accident on westbound Interstate 30 at the 4-mile marker outside Texarkana, Ark. The accident involving two 18-wheelers and two passenger vehicles happened about 2:30 a.m. ...

A tractor-trailer driver who caused a chain-reaction collision last November on Interstate 30 that killed four had consumed cocaine and marijuana, according to an Arkansas Crime Lab report.

The 60-page toxicology report on Vaughn Gentry, 43, of Dallas shows the truck driver’s blood tested...

Published: 08/30/2010