PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Sorrow for the family of Montia Bouie has morphed into outrage.
10 On Your Side has learned of an alleged scheme with ties across the globe that may have contributed to the party bus crash that killed the mother of two, and brothers from Virginia Beach, Jontae Russell and Xzavier Evans.
“First of all, they might as well play Russian roulette,” said Bouie’s grandmother, Velma Latham Chandler. “These are people’s lives they are playing with. This is real life. They are ruining peoples’ lives. They took mothers. They took my baby away. They took a sister, they took cousins, they took family members.”
The driver of the tractor-trailer that slammed into the party bus on I-64 in York County told investigators his employer altered electronic driving logs, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report also said a company in Lithuania helped Triton Logistics alter driving logs.
Latham Chandler offered her assessment of the NTSB findings.
“You’re on the highway with multiple cars and multiple people,” Latham Chandler said. “People are dying because you falsified the document.”
The report said Triton also allegedly inserted a real person’s name to create a fake co-driver of the truck, which was loaded with beer.
This great-grandmother WAVY-TV viewers to see the faces of children who may never remember the mother who was killed in a crash, which now involves an international investigation. Chandler Latham told 10 On Your Side she is confident that justice will be served.
A representative for Triton Logistics said the company has no comment on the allegations in the report that it had a method for altering drivers’ electronic logs.