Truck driver acquitted of all manslaughter charges

Thursday, July 17, 2008 | 7:43 p.m. CDT; updated 2:46 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLUMBIA — A truck driver who failed to slow for backed-up traffic and collided with a car, killing four women on I-70 in eastern Callaway County in 2006 was acquitted by a Boone County jury Wednesday night on four counts of second-degree involuntary manslaughter.

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