UPDATE: South Carolina trucker charged with 4th DUI in connection with fiery I-295 crash
A South Carolina truck driver is in prison on his fourth charge of driving under the influence after Sunday morning's crash that destroyed his rig, sparked a massive fire, and snarled traffic for hours in the area around the Interstate 95/Interstate 295 split.
Fifty-five-year-old Jeffery Mosier was hauling construction equipment on 95 northbound at the split around 2:40 a.m. Sunday morning when his tractor-trailer hit a construction impact attenuator, overturned and burst into flames, causing a brush fire that affected parts of the Route 141 overpass, Delaware State Police said.
Interstate 295 was closed between Airport Road and Route 13 northbound for about seven hours
Paramedics took Mosier to Christiana Hospital, where troopers tested his blood alcohol level and found him to be under the influence.
Mosier, who was convicted of DUI in 2010, 2011 and 2014, is being held at the Howard Young Prison, charged with refusing to be tested for DUI and failing to remain in a single lane, in addition to the DUI count.
EDIT: According to this
story his 2014 DUI arrest took place in Monona County, Iowa (the other two happened in Texas and Alabama). Just brings it a little bit closer to home.
