Driver’s Briefcase Opened and the Questions Poured Out
The stretch of Sherman Highway looked like the scene of a Baghdad car bombing, said writer Gregg Jones.
On a cloudy afternoon an 18-wheeler inexplicably crossed the median on U.S. 75, reported writer Doug Swanson.
Lisa Martin, her three young boys, and her mother were trapped in their Expedition, which lay overturned and mangled beneath the truck, according to reports.
Only two of the roofers survived, according to police.
Operators logged the first 911 call at 4:29 p.m. on Sept. 20, 2004, files show.
Officers Mark Wood and Brad Gibson said they found no shortage of witnesses and no disagreement on the basic facts, according to research.
Wood read the trucker, Miroslav Jozwiak his Miranda rights at 6:30 p.m., according to the police report. Jozwiak had sat in the grass of the highway median, tugging on a tooth, according to a recent article.
Gibson approached.
“Mike Jozwiak,” the driver said.
At the crash site later that evening, a white Ford pickup pulled into the median.
At almost the same moment, Wood walked into Emergency Room 6 at WNJ Medical Center and arrested Jozwiak, reported Jones.
Federal investigators converged on Sherman the next day, according to the local news.
They didn’t find any mechanical problems with Jozwiak’s 1999 Freightliner tractor or the 1997 Trailmobile semi-trailer he was hauling, wrote Jones.
Sherman police searched Jozwiak’s black briefcase for his logbook to see how long he had driven in the days before the accident, writes Jones.
“Mr. Jozwiak’s attorney, Cornel Walker, said the trucker left the logbook in the cab and it burned,” said Jones. “Investigators examined other possible factors in the crash.”
Perazine and another antipsychotic drug, sulpiride, were found in two of the Polish medications in Jozwiak’s briefcase, according to records.
“Some time after the accident, Jozwiak told the Grayson County jail doctors that he had been treated for depression in Poland in January 2004,” said Swanson. “He couldn’t name the medication but said it was in his briefcase.”
Also in Jozwiak’s briefcase was photocopies of ads for two Chicago-area psychiatrists, reported Swanson.
Walker said the medication in Jozwiak’s briefcase was “an integral Part of the case” but he refused to elaborate to the press.
