BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KEYE) — The driver of the concrete pumper truck that crashed into a school bus full of pre-K students last week admitted that he only got three hours of sleep the night before, and he consumed cocaine the morning of the collision, according to court documents.
The crash happened last Friday on State Highway 21 in Bastrop County as the Hays CISD bus was returning from a field trip to the zoo. As seen in dashcam video released by the district, the FJM Concrete Pumping truck crossed the double yellow line into the path of the school bus.
The bus swerved to avoid the truck, skidded, then rolled. It completed a full rotation before coming to a stop upright.
Two people were killed in the crash, 5-year-old Ulises…
