Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says New Mexico State Police officers are partially responsible for a fatal semi-truck accident over 1,000 miles away earlier this month in Florida.
According to a statement first reported locally by the Albuquerque Journal, the U.S. Department of Transportation initiated an investigation after a truck driver conducted an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway, killing three near Fort Pierce, Florida.
Local reporting from WPTV found that the trucking company had been cited for safety violations 80 times in the past two years. Duffy announced that the federal investigation would focus on the company and driver, whom Duffy says should not have been eligible for a commercial license because of his immigration status. The Florida Highway Patrol previously said that the driver had entered the United States illegally in 2018…