Cops: Fatal-Crash Trucker Was Watching Porn

Mom of 2 killed when rig plows into her car
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 28, 2010 3:36 AM CST
Cops: Fatal-Crash Trucker Was Watching Porn
Truckers are battling to keep computers in their cabs as congress debates banning driving texting.   (?Bei Shu Lan)

A trucker has been arrested after police determined he was leering at porn on his lap top computer when he plowed into a disabled car on a New York freeway, killing the female driver. Thomas Wallace, 45, of Ohio has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 33-year-old mother of two young children. Truckers are currently battling to their protect their right to keep in-cab computers amid congressional efforts to ban driver texting.
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