A Noreste bus of the type involved in a 2007 accident which resulted in a $5.2 million dollar jusgementAn investigation by Mexican authorities conducted shortly after the wreck placed no criminal responsibility on the bus driver, who was released from custody moments after the crash,
An Hidalgo County jury has entered a $5.2 million judgment against a Mexican bus company it deemed partially responsible for the 2007 deaths of three Edinburg women, their family’s attorney said Monday.
Virginia Salinas, 28, and her 71-year-old grandmother, Irene Garza, died Nov. 10 of that year, when a truck they were riding in collided with a bus operated by Monterrey-based Autobuses Del Noreste. Salinas’ 9-year-old daughter — Veronica — was also killed in the crash.
Evidence presented during the week long trial suggested that bus driver Victor Torres overshot a stop sign outside of Los Herreras, N.L. — a community about 83 miles southwest of Reynosa — placing his vehicle out in the intersection after a sharp curve in the road.
“(The jury) had great power to bring justice to this family,” said Mark A. Cantu, who represented the family in its suit against the bus company.
An investigation by Mexican authorities conducted shortly after the wreck placed no criminal responsibility on the bus driver, who was released from custody moments after the crash, according to media reports from that country.
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