Expert Witness Claims Driver in St. Louis Truck Crash Was Impaired by Alcohol

St. Louis, MOAn expert witness testifying recently said that a driver involved in a St. Louis truck crash was under the influence of alcohol when his tow truck hit a stalled car in 2008, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

span itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="display:block">According to the news provider, 45-year-old Mark Alan Ikerman has been charged with two counts of DUI and two counts of failing to report an accident that involved personal injury or death. In the November 2008 crash, 34-year-old Donald Lee Legens and his infant son were killed, the news source said.

After Ikerman was found by authorities, he allegedly had a blood alcohol concentration of .02 percent approximately 10 hours after the crash occurred. Christopher Long, a witness for the prosecution and director of the forensic technology laboratory at St. Louis University, said that Ikerman's blood alcohol concentration would have been around 0.2 percent at the time of the crash, which is more than twice the legal limit.

Ikerman's attorney claims that the tow truck driver did not consume more than three or four drinks the evening of the crash, the news source reports.

According to the Web site for the Missouri State Highway Patrol, there were 244 pick-up trucks involved in fatal traffic accidents in the state in 2009.