Second lawsuit filed over Mount Pleasant school bus crash
A second lawsuit concerning a deadly collision in March between an 18-wheeler and a Mount Pleasant, Texas, school bus carrying members of a high school track team is now pending in a Texarkana federal court.
The Mount Pleasant boys track team was traveling on Highway 271 about 10 miles north of Mount Pleasant on their way home from a meet in Paris, Texas, when a big rig being driven by Rooney Trucking driver Bradley Farmer veered into the bus's lane and struck it head on, according to news reports. As the bus loaded with student athletes spun out of control, a car being driven by an assistant coach following the bus was also struck, killing the coach and Farmer. Of the 34 youngsters on the bus, 34 were transported to area hospitals with injuries.
A civil suit seeking damages for one of the injured track team members was moved Wednesday from Titus County district court to federal court in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas at the request of Rooney Trucking, a Missouri corporation. The suit was first filed in Titus County May 18 on behalf of Alma Delia Atrizco-Alvarez as next friend of her minor son by Tyler, Texas, lawyer Abraham Carreon.
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Rooney has filed an answer to the first suit, which alleges the Mount Pleasant Independent School District and/or Durham School Services is at least partly to blame for the injuries suffered by the students because the bus was not outfitted with seat belts.
Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texarkana/story/2017/may/26/second-lawsuit-filed-over-bus-crash/675609/
