Truck driver in Deichman crash was sober


July 10, 2008 at 2:05p.m.

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Robert Deichman YPD offficer killed in traffic accident

YOUNGSTOWN — David Feliciano, the semi-truck driver who survived the crash that killed Detective Sgt. Robert Deichman, tested clean for drugs/alcohol, said Lt. Chris Heverly, commander of the Ohio State Highway Patrol Post in Canfield.

The reading was 0.000, Heverly said.

Deichman, 40, died when his city-owned 2003 Ford Taurus hit the side of Feliciano’s trailer on Salt Springs Road around 3:20 a.m. June 19. Deichman’s blood alcohol concentration was 0.158. The legal limit is 0.08.

Deichman, an accident investigator, was off duty but on call, required to be fit for duty in the event he was needed to investigate.

Heverly said the crash remains under investigation.