Report: Both are at fault in triple-fatal crash
DIXON – A driver involved in a triple-fatal crash in June was under the influence of marijuana and trying to access the Internet when his car was struck by a semitrailer, according to a report from the Lee County Sheriff’s Department…
As for Parrett, an autopsy revealed he had more than trace amounts of marijuana in his system at the time of the crash, and was using an “electronic communication device” to “command or request an Internet site” at the time of the accident. He made no attempt to avoid the crash, Yater said in the report.
The report’s conclusion: “The semi was not legal to be on the road when it left the scale house at Wastone Quarry in Dixon, and the car should not have been operated on the roadway by John Parrett, because he was under the influence of ‘any amount’ of drugs.