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NTSB reveals marijuana behind GOP train crash

By Daniel Jativa
Published March 23, 2019 2:13pm ET
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NTSB reveals marijuana behind GOP train crash
An Amtrak passenger train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Va. No lawmakers were believed injured, but it at least one person in the truck was said to be seriously injured. (Allison Wrabel/The Daily Progress via AP) | Allison Wrabel

A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board says the truck driver who crashed into an Amtrak train carrying GOP lawmakers had traces of marijuana in his system.

According to the organization’s report issued this week, the truck driver, Dana William Naylor Jr., 31, caused the accident when he decided to swerve around the railroad track’s lowered gates caused the 2018 accident.

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