The firefighters were dealing with a auto crash and the new bus-fire truck accident caused the death of a victim who was still in a vehicle involved in the previous crash. “Authorities said he is in the country illegally and should not have been behind the wheel of the bus, or any vehicle”. She said he also was ticketed August 5 for driving without a license. Kelly is reportedly in critical condition and Jones is in serious condition. The other victim, 21-year-old Jermaine Starr, was a rear seat passenger in the Camry and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Amaya Rodriguez remained in custody Monday, a day after his arrest on two counts of negligent homicide and one each of negligent injury, reckless driving and driving without a license. The driver suffered minor injuries.
Trooper Melissa Matey, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana State Police, confirmed to reporters that the driver of the bus, Denis Yasmir Amaya Rodriguez, 37, is a Honduras national who entered the United States illegally.
Westbound Interstate 10 was closed while investigators cleared the scene, police said. “All three firemen were thrown over the side of the guardrail into the water below”, Matey said.
Part of the guard rail shows some damage near a bus after a deadly crash on Interstate 10 near Laplace, La., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016.
An unlicensed bus driver is being blamed for a crash that killed two people and injured 36 others.
It’s unclear if Rodriguez was an employee of AM Party Bus and Kristina’s Transportation LLC, which are the two names of the company that the bus belonged to.
An illegal alien was piloting a charter bus that he wasn’t licensed to drive when it crashed Sunday morning in Louisiana, killing two people and injuring dozens, police said.
In addition, firefighter Nicholas Saale, 32, of Ponchatoula, and William Mack Beal, 35, of Gonzales, were transported to a local facility.
Acadian Ambulance is reporting that two people have died and over 40 were transported to nearby hospitals.
Additional criminal charges are forthcoming.
The funeral home obituary says Chauvin’s father and grandfather were volunteer firefighters, and he began working with a fire department in St. John the Baptist Parish as a teenager. But hospitals report that two are in fair condition and one has been released.
Construction workers on a bus involved in a fatal crash were heading to Baton Rouge to apply for flood-remediation jobs with a company partly owned by an Arkansas legislator, an attorney for the company said Tuesday. “Louisiana has the “move over” law in place to protect our first responders on our roadways”.
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The bus, being driven by an undocumented man, was carrying disaster relief workers sent to aid a Leachville-based company whose principals include state Rep. David Wallace, according to The New Orleans Advocate.
