An autopsy report on the driver of a gasoline tanker truck that smashed into a light rail abutment along Yale Avenue in Denver on Thanksgiving shows the driver had alcohol and methamphetamine in his system.
Rickey Swaniger, 56, of Sterling, died on impact when the truck sped down an off-ramp from Interstate 25 across Yale Avenue into an abutment, taking out traffic lights and narrowly missing vehicles stopped along the ramp.
Swaniger had multiple blunt force injuries and died on scene. It was many hours before first responders were able to remove him from the crushed cab of the vehicle.
Video obtained by CBS News Colorado from the driver of a vehicle stopped at a nearby intersection showed the truck barreling across the street, with traffic halted, and into the abutment…