Truck driver allegedly smoked marijuana prior to deadly 5-semi truck crash

DAVIS, Okla. (KFOR)- A 7-motor vehicle crash on northbound I-35 in Garvin County has still left two useless and court docket data crammed with most likely causes for the crash.

Just after 12 p.m., a various auto collision was claimed on I-35 near mile marker 59.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol was notified and responded to the scene.

“That area has a development zone,” stated OHP Trooper Eric Foster. “Any time there is a lane closure, you are pushing all of that targeted visitors into a person lane. And so it incredibly frequently backs up and that’s what transpired in this circumstance. Visitors was both wholly stopped, often barely relocating or extremely little by little when a semi approached that stopped site visitors or slowed traffic way also promptly and struck the again of the passenger motor vehicle, going about the top of it, crushing the motor vehicle.”

He explained what frequently happens is drivers will see signage indicating future development zones, but that it does not sign up right up until it is also late.

“The other difficulty is that when it’s a commercial motor car and they’re touring 70 miles an hour and they weigh 80,000 pounds, they can not end like a motor vehicle can. And so it can be very, pretty perilous,” Trooper Foster additional.

A newly filed possible induce affidavit exhibits a few professional motor vehicles have been stopped in the outdoors lane with a single business auto and two cars stopped in the inside of lane.

38-year-outdated Tony Aghaji-Enweremadu was in a semi-truck coming up on the traffic when he allegedly gained a “Ring” notification on his cellular phone.

“Aghaji-Enweremadu communicated by the Ring Doorbell online video monitor to the FedEx human being when he noticed traffic had stopped. Aghaji-Enweremadu then swerved to the still left colliding with a different commercial motor automobile,” courtroom records go through.

That crash resulted in the dying of two people today.

Trooper Foster claimed their families have been notified, but they’re holding off on formally asserting who they are until the Condition Clinical Examiner’s Business can positively detect them.

“If you are driving a little something that large and that heavy, you should really have absolutely nothing in your hand,” explained Trooper Foster. “If you’re heading 60 miles an hour and you get your eyes off the roadway for the time that it can take to do a ton of issues like that… 3 to 4 seconds, you near 300 toes, which is a football subject just in the time you have experienced your eyes off the highway. And that’s how perilous it is,” explained Trooper Foster.

Courtroom information present Aghaji-Enweremadu was afterwards flown to Denton, Texas for his injuries.

Regulation enforcement interviewed him when he was there.

Aghaji-Enweremadu allegedly admitted to officials he experienced “smoked a bowl of marijuana” when he woke up that early morning and prior to his prior to his 8 a.m. get the job done change.

Aghaji-Enweremadu experienced his blood drawn for drug screening by a Texas Trooper. Trooper Foster stated those people effects have nevertheless to appear back again.

Aghaji-Enweremadu was afterwards launched from the Health-related Town Denton Hospital and agreed to travel to the OHP Troop F Headquarters in Ardmore.

In a created assertion, Aghaji-Enweremadu said, “I am deeply sorry for the lost lives.”

“You know, a ton of instances individuals really don’t imagine about the consequences of factors right up until right after they’ve transpired. And very typically soon after they’ve transpired, they are too late,” included Trooper Foster.

Aghaji-Enweremadu didn’t present admission to cigarette smoking marijuana earlier in the working day in that assertion, in accordance to courtroom files.

Aghaji-Enweremadu was arrested Thursday early morning at 11:04.

He now faces two counts of misdemeanor manslaughter.

Trooper Foster advised KFOR there’s nonetheless a extensive street in advance for this investigation.

He said an OHP traffic murder device will appear at the bodyweight of the vehicles involved, tire reactions, and vehicle reactions up coming.