Bus Driver in Crash Fails Test for Drugs
From Times Wire Reports
The driver of a charter bus that crashed and killed 22 people was fired from bus companies in 1996 and 1989 after testing positive for marijuana four times, authorities said. A federal investigator also confirmed a report that Frank Bedell, 46, tested positive for marijuana when he was hospitalized Sunday after the bus veered off a highway in New Orleans and plunged into an embankment. It was not clear how long before the crash Bedell might have smoked marijuana. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.
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