Mexico Trucker Online

The truck driver blamed for Monday afternoon’s crash south of Saltillo, Mexico, was charged with 11 counts of intoxication manslaughter and 14 counts of intoxication assault with injuries. Police in the state of Coahuila said he had a blood alcohol concentration of .08, the intoxication threshold in Texas.

Seven Americans, three Canadians and the Mexican driver of the bus were killed when Jose Cesar Rodriguez Garcia, 30, apparently dozed at the wheel of the tractor-trailer, causing it to drift onto the shoulder. He overcorrected, and the truck went headlong into the bus.

Jose Angel Herrera, coordinator of Coahuila’s public prosecution office, said Rodriguez Garcia remained in the hospital in stable condition but had bond set at $312,056, or about 4.4 million pesos. That’s 400,000 pesos for each death.

Rodriguez Garcia worked as a private driver. He was transporting a load of sand for construction, Herrera said.