By Matthew Waller
SAN ANGELO, Texas Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:07pm EST
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - The drivers of your truck involved in some sort of lingering impact with a educate by carrying out a Texas veterans' parade a week ago continues to be decide to put under this care on the physician and is particularly not still qualified to always be interviewed simply by investigators, your driver's legal practitioner stated on Tuesday.
Four veterans hurt throughout Iraq or perhaps Afghanistan died with November 15 while a Union Pacific freight coach plowed to the flatbed trailer we were holding resting on, plus of sixteen people were being injured.
For once about Tuesday, the motive force on the truck taking the particular truck was revealed publicly while Dale Andrew Hayden, 50, regarding Midland, Texas, your experienced and effective government reservist, his attorney, Doug Fletcher, said.
Hayden is usually "under health practitioner care," Fletcher said, in addition to the particular National Transportation Safety Board will certainly hold out with regard to professional medical clearance prior to interviewing him. It has not been clear what disease Hayden had been suffering.
Hayden's testimony is key towards the investigation mainly because authorities feel the particular audio plus lighting notice than a educate has been approaching worked properly. Eyewitnesses explained the actual barricade arm emerged along within the trailer precisely as it was traversing that railroad tracks.
The NTSB has been re-enacting the incident about Tuesday give to help figure out the actual cause.
Union Pacific has blamed the driver in the vehicle for the accident. Fletcher mentioned they appeared to be comprising Hayden and also Smith Industries, the driver's employer.
The veterans mortally wounded from the lock up have been referred to as Marine Chief Warrant Officer Gary Stouffer, 37; Army Sergeant Major Lawrence Boivin, 47; Army Sergeant Major William Lubbers, 43; and also Army Sergeant Joshua Michael, 34.
Also with Tuesday, town involving Midland, some sort of booming oil location around West Texas, said your march sponsored because of the private "Show involving Support" group, could not possess a permit.
"The City of Midland would not concern some sort of permit, nor did metropolis receive your permit practical application from your Show with Support organization," stated Midland spokesman Ryan Stout.
It wasn't instantly clear should the organization had sought plus received permits throughout former years. It seemed to be the next year or so your parade had used identical route.
(Editing by Greg McCune and Peter Cooney)
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