Another non-English speaking trucker (Haitian) on trial for killing one EMT and seriously wounding another. Needs a translator at trial. Another trucker, who had crashed into the original jack-knifed truck and trailer, also needed a translator at trial to testify as a witness. (Wyoming)
State Rests In Trial Of Haitian Trucker Who Killed Rawlins EMT With Semi - September 08, 2025
The state of Wyoming rested its case Monday in the trial of a truck driver accused of recklessly driving into an ambulance - and EMTs outside of it - on Interstate-80 near Rawlins three years ago, killing one EMT and seriously injuring another.
Haitian Saviol Saint Jean, 46,drove a commercial semitruck and trailer into a parked ambulance and two EMTs walking nearbyon the morning of Dec. 21, 2022, as the medics responded to a collision between a commercial truck and enclosed trailer that left both lanes blocked.
The question for the jury is whether he behaved “recklessly” enough to commit aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated assault. He also faces one count of failing to move away from emergency vehicles.
Saint Jean could face up to 30 years in prison and fines if convicted on all three charges.
…Saint Jean was going about 55 mph in an 80-mph zone that morning.He told an investigator that he though[t] the ambulance lights were on the right — “always on the right” — and he merged into the left lane. He saw people trying to flee, and he tried to stop but it was “too late,” Saint Jean said, according to videos of that interview played at trial.
“ … "if you see emergency lights, youslow down. If you don’t understand what you see in front of you,slow down. 'If you don’t know where the emergency vehicle is, youslow down. He was going too fast to stop,” the prosecutor said.
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The Accident(s) -
Before 4 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2022,a red Ford F-150 hauling a trailer jackknifed across Interstate 80in Sweetwater County near the Carbon County line.
Acommercial truck driven by Osvaldo Herrera-Pupo hit the truck and trailer, sending the truck into the left-side median off the road and scattering trailer debris over the interstate, court documents say.
Herrera-Pupo’s truck came to rest in the right lane, leaving both lanes blocked: one with trailer debris, and one with Herrera-Pupo’s truck.
Adouble-trailer combo driven by Utah-based trucker Andrew Gibbs maneuvered around the crashonto the left side, where it got stuck.
Other cars passed on the right shoulder, according to court testimony.
Tiffany Gruetzmacher drove an ambulance to the scene with her fellow EMT Tyeler Harris in the passenger seat.
She parked west of the trailer debris, mostly or entirely within the left lane, according to court testimony.
Then Saint Jean sped into the scene and into Gruetzmacher and Harris, killing Harris and leaving Gruetzmacher with back, skull, neck and hand fractures, court documents say.
[Saint Jean's] semialso hit the ambulance.
… [prosectors emphasized] commonsense measures of crash avoidance, how well other drivers performed on scene, and testimony that the road under Saint Jean was dry, not icy, that morning.
Saint Jean, [the one on trial] who is Haitian, has an English-language interpreter in trial.
Herrera-Pupo [the driver whose truck crashed into the original jack-knifed truck] required English translation from his co-driver Brian Perez while trucking, the latter testified Thursday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not grant a request for their citizenship statuses by publication time Monday.…
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/09/08/day-three-of-trial-in-truck-crash-that-killed-emt/