Details are sparse on a Vancouver, Washington, commercial truck driver charged with homicide by vehicle on claims he crossed into oncoming lanes on Interstate 80 and killed someone.
Borys Bakhtiarov, 46, faces one count of homicide by vehicle, which is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and $2,000 in fines.
He was arrested around midday Saturday after his white Freightliner crossed from the westbound lane on Interstate 80 in Carbon County near milepost 215 at Rawlins, through a guardrail and a cable barrier crashed into a red Freightliner in the eastbound lane, according to an evidentiary affidavit by Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Tim Howell.
The affidavit says the crash seriously injured the other truck’s driver and killed the co-driver in the sleeper area of the cab.
Authorities chose to arrest Bakhtiarov, who agreed to give up a blood sample, the document adds.
The affidavit doesn’t say what that blood sample yielded.
Bakhtiarov’s court file says he pleaded not guilty Monday in Rawlins Circuit Court to the homicide charge and to not staying in his lane.
A language interpreter attended that court hearing, the file says.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol, the Carbon County Attorney’s Office and the Carbon County sheriff did not return Tuesday requests for comment and additional information.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
