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Published on Tuesday, October 14, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Toxicology tests show that the driver of a charter bus that crashed on a rural Northern California road, killing nine, was not drunk or on drugs at the time, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Quintin Watts, 52, was released from the hospital and taken into law enforcement custody after he was released Tuesday morning from the hospital where he had been recovering from the Oct. 5 crash. He was being held on a suspected parole violation at a Tracy prison while authorities continued their investigation.
The California Highway Patrol initially arrested Watts on suspicion of driving under the influence after the bus overturned on a two-lane road one hour north of Sacramento. Many of the 42 passengers heading to Colusa Casino Resort were Laotian seniors, and at least eight remain hospitalized.
Watts' mother, Chaney Mae Watts, 77, of Stockton, said her family never believed reports that he had been driving under the influence
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