GREEN RIVER — In day four of the vehicular homicide trial of a Haitian trucker accused of recklessly killing one EMT and severely injuring another with a commercial truck on Interstate 80, the driver took the witness stand Thursday in his own defense.

Saviol Saint Jean, 46, faces one count of aggravated vehicular homicide, another of aggravated assault, and a third for not moving over for emergency vehicles. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

On Tuesday he ascended to the witness stand, swore to tell the truth, and through an interpreter said that when the Vamar commercial truck he was driving collided with Tyeler Harris and Tiffany Gruetzmacher — killing Harris — he had failed to respond to the chaotic light and shape patterns cast by emergency lights wh

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