An attorney who represents parents of two of the five Georgia Southern nursing students who died in a horrific truck wreck last month, plus one of the survivors, says the trucker who caused the accident was fired from a previous job in 2011 after wrecking his truck when he fell asleep at the wheel.

Atlanta attorney Joe Fried said Wednesday that Total Transportation of Mississippi, the company that employed Louisiana trucker John Wayne Johnson, knew of the earlier accident, based on records he has received that the trucking company has given to him.

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