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HUDSON, Wis. (AP) - A truck driver who had been accused of falling asleep at the wheel was acquitted of all charges in a bus crash that killed five people returning from a high school band competition.
Michael Kozlowski, 24, of Schererville, Ind., had been accused of falling asleep at the wheel and causing the crash, which also injured 28 people, on Interstate 94 in 2005. His truck tipped over after nearly going off the road and was hit by a bus filled with 44 students, teachers and chaperones returning to Chippewa Falls from a competition in Whitewater.
The jury deliberated about four hours before finding Kozlowski not guilty of five counts of negligent homicide, seven felony counts of causing great bodily harm by reckless driving and 21 misdemeanor counts of causing injury by reckless driving.
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