The long-haul trucker from California who killed seven Oregon farmworkers when his 55,000-pound semitruck smashed into a parked van was sentenced to 48 years and three months in prison Tuesday.
A Marion County jury found Lincoln Smith guilty last month of seven counts of second-degree manslaughter for the fatal crash at Milepost 240 on Interstate 5 on May 18, 2023.
Smith, 54, had spent the night before the crash getting high with hitchhikers in Sutherlin and had gotten a late start to the day, but testified he was only tired, not intoxicated, when he decided to pull into the Santiam River rest stop to sleep…