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Synthetic drug use by U.S. truckers is a growing and deadly problem

A Texas trucker was likely impaired by a marijuana-like substance when he hit and killed four members of a college womens softball team last year in Oklahoma.

By David Voreacos, Bloomberg | Updated on November 17, 2015

(Bloomberg) — Synthetic drug use by U.S. truckers is a growing and deadly problem, U.S. safety investigators said Tuesday, in concluding that a Texas trucker was “likely” impaired by a marijuana-like substance when he hit and killed four members of a college women’s softball team last year in Oklahoma.

At a hearing Tuesday, the four-member National Transportation Safety Board rejected the driver’s claim that he was distracted at the time of the crash because he was reaching for a soda. The 2014 crash prompted the board to urge new testing and procedures to protect the public from truck drivers impaired by synthetic drugs.

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