Hockey gamers’ dad and mom suing truck driver liable for horrific bus crash
The dad and mom of highschool hockey gamers injured in a crash with a semi truck earlier this month are suing the truck driver concerned within the alleged drunk driving incident.
The accident occurred on November twelfth in Kosciusko County, Indiana. The lawsuit alleges that 58-year-old Victor Santos had a blood alcohol stage at practically twice the authorized restrict simply after the crash.
Chicago Solar Instances stories that the scholars on the varsity bus have been injured after Santos ran a crimson gentle, crashed into the bus, and flipped it on its facet. 23 college students and their two coaches have been all despatched to the hospital. Three college students have been initially in vital situation. They have been heading again to their lodge after a hockey event.
The dad and mom submitting the lawsuit say they have been at a restaurant about quarter-hour away once they began receiving calls concerning the incident.
The telephone calls began to come back in and folks have been standing up screaming, ‘the bus rolled over the bus rolled over,’” mum or dad Wendy Prepare dinner stated. “All of us simply ran to the automobile…we tried to determine if these boys are alive.”
One of many injured college students remains to be on the hospital, and a number of other are nonetheless unable to return to high school.
The lawsuit names Santos and trucking firms N&V Trucking Specific, B&W Cartage Firm, Inc., B&W Cartage, Inc. and B&W Cartage Worldwide, Inc. as defendants. Representatives have declined to remark.
Santos has been charged with 4 counts of inflicting critical bodily hurt whereas working a car and 22 counts of prison recklessness for the incident. His bond was set for $75,000. Santos had been beforehand charged in Indiana for failure to adjust to federal motor service security rules and failure to register beneath the unified service registration system.
“He by no means ought to have been on the street, a lot much less employed to be behind the wheel of a semi-tractor trailer,” lawyer Timothy Cavanagh stated in a press release. “Santos and the trucking firms have to be held liable for the egregious conduct that has left these younger males with lifelong bodily and emotional accidents.”
