Preliminary tests rule out diabetic reaction in wrong-way crash

Preliminary autopsy results suggest Mark Santos was not hypoglycemic when he drove his semi-trailer the wrong way down a busy Edmonton freeway and off an overpass.

“We did do a preliminary kind of a test … almost like what you’d call a field test to determine what, perhaps if we could get some idea what his blood sugars were,” Dennis Caufield, a senior medical examiner, explained Thursday.

“That initial field test suggested his blood sugars appeared to be relatively normal.”  More from CBC – Canada