A Willard, Mo., truck driver whose tractor trailer plowed into a line of stopped cars on an east Miami, Okla., turnpike earlier this summer and killed 10 people now faces misdemeanor criminal charges.
Donald Creed, 76, today was charged with 10 counts of negligent homicide, according to Eddie Wyant, the Ottawa County district attorney. Each charge carries a maximum of one year in a county jail.
Creed had made his final delivery in Vian, Okla., which is 237 miles from Springfield, and was heading back on the turnpike at 1 p.m. June 26 when his truck plowed into a line of vehicles that had stopped for an earlier crash, eight miles northeast of Miami.
There were no skid marks or other evidence that Creed tried to stop. Other truck drivers told the patrol that Creed’s truck didn’t slow down for the stalled traffic.
