We’d have questions too. Ruth Rowan, the mother of Alice Swanson, reached out to the media yesterday — Rowan is concerned that the driver who was operating the garbage truck that collided with Swanson on July 8, 2008 is still on the road, despite a questionable history behind the wheel. Marco Flores Fuentes, the driver in question, “had five driving violations…within the five months before [Swanson] was killed,” “an accident eight days” after Swanson’s death, and, according to WUSA9, had previously been “convicted of a drug offense and deported.”
In an interview, Rowan said that D.C. police did not give Fuentes a drug test after the accident, which seems like something they should have done, considering Fuentes’ rap sheet. Both the police and Fuentes have yet to respond to Rowan’s accusations. In January, Swanson’s family reached an out-of-court settlement with KMG Hauling, Fuentes’ employer on the day of the accident. KMG did not admit liability in the settlement.
Several individuals recently marked the two-year anniversary of Swanson’s death with touching handmade remembrances and another ghost bike.