BUDA, Texas (KXAN) – Hays Consolidated Unbiased College District launched the video of the crash between a concrete truck and a school bus that left two lifeless and a number of other injured on Friday, March 22.
The crash occurred between a Hays CISD bus and a concrete truck. It resulted in two deaths — five-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, who was on the bus, and 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, a doctoral candidate on the College of Journalism and Media on the College of Texas at Austin, who was touring in a automobile behind the bus.
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The video exhibits the bus touring westbound on SH 21, getting back from a subject journey to the Bastrop Zoo. Simply earlier than 2 p.m., a truck on the identical freeway touring east, veers into the bus’ lane, hitting it, and inflicting the bus to roll.
This sprint digital camera video exhibits the collision from the bus driver’s viewpoint. KXAN has eliminated the audio.
KXAN has discovered the corporate working the concrete pump truck that collided with the college bus was operated by a small trucking firm referred to as FJM Concrete Pumping LLC. The corporate relies in Smithville and runs only one truck, which is permitted for intrastate, non-hazardous materials transport, in keeping with Federal Motor Provider Security Administration information.
Federal information present no historical past of crashes, inspections, or violations for the corporate. The corporate was shaped in Could 2022 by Francisco Martinez Jr.
Dad and mom beforehand instructed KXAN that this was most of the scholar’s first subject journey.
“It’s simply been an emotional wreck,” Hector Campos, whose daughter was on the bus, told KXAN. “It’s simply very unhappy. We’re attempting to carry it collectively. However you already know, we’re being as constructive as we are able to.”
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