Texas school bus crash: Grand jury to hear case against driver of cement truck

School bus crash: Truck driver to be indicted

The cement truck driver involved in a deadly crash with a Hays CISD school bus could be formally indicted on Tuesday.

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas - The cement truck driver involved in a deadly crash with a Hays CISD school bus could be formally indicted on Tuesday.

In the first hearing since the crash, prosecutors said a grand jury is expected to meet on Tuesday, August 6.

Jerry Hernandez is charged with criminally negligent homicide for his involvement in the crash on March 22.

Texas school bus crash: New details emerge

New details are emerging after a deadly school bus crash in Bastrop County that killed two people, including a preschooler.

Authorities say Hernandez was driving the cement truck when he hit a school bus coming back from a field trip to the zoo in Bastrop County. A total of 44 students and 11 adults were on the bus.

Five-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya was killed, along with 33-year-old Ryan Wallace in a vehicle behind the bus.

Texas school bus crash: Hays CISD identifies victim

Hays CISD has identified the preschooler who was killed in a school bus crash as 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya.

According to the arrest affidavit, Hernandez admitted to using marijuana the night before and cocaine in the early morning and only slept three hours the previous night.

Court paperwork says he previously tested positive for drug use and already had a prohibited driving status in a federal database. His employer, FJM Concrete, is accused of not checking the database before hiring him.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered him to stop driving any commercial motor vehicle in April.