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Intoxicated American trucker jailed for driving wrong way

A 49-year-old commercial truck driver who was drunk when he crashed into an oncoming car on Interstate 205 — after driving the wrong way for 11 miles — was sentenced to six months in jail Tuesday.

Kenneth Eugene Burgess, 49, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless endangerment for the crash at about 4:30 a.m. March 18.