CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : STOCKTON : Illicit Drugs Not a Factor in Wreck

No traces of illicit drugs were found in the bodies of three victims of the early morning collision of an Amtrak train and a tractor-trailer rig last month, according to a spokesman for the San Joaquin County coroner’s office. The coroner’s report found that the truck driver, David Haskell, died of “extreme blunt force trauma” and that two train crew members died of burns. More than 50 people suffered minor injuries in the Dec. 19 accident, which took place in heavy fog about five miles southeast of Stockton. Train fireman Michael G. Passarella, 41, of San Francisco, and engineer Edward E. McMillon, 48, of Hayward, both died in their seats in the charred locomotive, according to the report.