Truck driver with history of collisions to face vehicular homicide trial in April

TWO HARBORS, Minn. -- A Hibbing commercial truck driver who has a history of traffic collisions brought on by a medical condition will go to trial on a criminal vehicular homicide charge in Lake County, where authorities said he caused an October 2015 crash that killed a Silver Bay man.

John Ray Carpenter, 60, is accused of operating a vehicle in a “grossly negligent manner” after allegedly falling asleep or losing consciousness at the wheel of his septic tanker, causing a crash that killed 31-year-old Andrew Johnson.

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