Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump

By: Jace DiCola

Outlets: KFF Health News

Published: May 19, 2026

Words: 1,473

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them.

The workers, Nathan Jones and Trent Umberger, died in the September 2024 crash, as did a passenger in the Jeep. Tests found that the driver, Patrick Sneddon, then 59, had oxycodone and six times Colorado’s presumed impairment threshold for …

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