Multiple lawsuits filed after deadly school bus crash in Bastrop County
AUSTIN, Texas — Multiple lawsuits have been filed against a concrete pumper truck driver and the company he worked for following last month’s deadly school bus crash in Bastrop County.
On March 22, an FJM concrete pumper truck crashed into a Hays CISD school bus on State Highway 21, killing 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya and 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, who was driving in a car behind the bus.
The driver of the concrete pumper truck, Jerry Hernandez, is charged with criminally negligent homicide.
In the latest lawsuit filed this week, a group of seven students and one parent, including survivors injured in the incident, asked for over $1 million from the parties allegedly responsible for the crash.
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