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DALLAS, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- An investigation has been requested into possible links between a truck driver charged with killing 10 people in a Texas crash and an Illinois scandal.
Illinois officials have asked federal prosecutors to investigate Miroslaw Janusz Jozwiak, a Polish national charged with criminally negligent homicide in the crash Monday at Sherman, Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
Sixty-six people have been convicted so far in an investigation of Illinois license officials who took bribes in exchange for issuing commercial driver's licenses. Jozwiak received his license from one of the Illinois testing facilities, the News reported.
A tractor-trailer truck driven by Joswiak crossed the median on U.S. 75 at Sherman on Monday and struck two oncoming cars, killing 10 people. Five members of one family died in the crash, the deadliest involving an 18-wheeler in the United States since 1988.
David Druker, a spokesman for the Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, said it was unknown yet if there is a link, but there were enough similarities to check it out. Many of those involved in the Illinois case were also of Eastern European descent.
Joswiak, who speaks little English, remains in jail at Sherman charged with 10 counts of criminally negligent homicide. The accident is still under investigation.
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