BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A Bastrop County judge sentenced the concrete truck driver involved in the deadly 2024 Hays Consolidated Independent School District school bus crash.
Jerry Hernandez, 44, was charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of criminally negligent homicide. He entered a guilty plea to manslaughter, which the court accepted. Hernandez was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The state previously dismissed the criminally negligent homicide charges.
PREVIOUS: Truck driver arrested in deadly Hays CISD bus crash enters guilty pleaThe March 22, 2024, crash on State Highway 21 killed 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya and 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, who was driving in a car behind the bus.
The victims who died as a result of a Hays CISD bus crash. Left: Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, 5 (Hays CISD photo); Right: Ryan Wallace, 33 (Moody College photo)The bus was carrying 44 Tom Green Elementary pre-K students and 11 adults. A camera on the school bus captured the truck veering into its lane, causing it to roll over.
“I do hope that this feels like justice for the family,” Hays CISD Spokesperson Tim Savoy told KXAN in June. “But justice is one thing. On the other hand, there’s nothing that’s going to bring Ulysses back, and that’s going to be pain that the family has to endure forever.”
After the crash, Hernandez admitted to investigators that he had smoked marijuana and consumed cocaine within 24 hours of the crash, according to his arrest affidavit.
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