Listening to for driver in large highschool bus crash postponed on account of language barrier

A listening to for the truck driver concerned in a severe crash with a college bus stuffed with excessive schoolers has been postponed because the courtroom searches for an interpreter. 

Truck driver Victor Santos was scheduled for his preliminary listening to in Kosciusko County at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November seventeenth for a crash that occurred in Indiana over the weekend. Now, the listening to has been postponed till Monday, November twenty first, because of the want for an interpreter in order that Santos can perceive the costs being introduced towards him, reported WANE 15 Information.

Santos is presently dealing with 26 felony counts, 22 of that are for prison recklessness whereas armed with a lethal weapon, together with 4 counts of inflicting severe bodily harm whereas working a car. Officers had been on their technique to “intercept” the semi truck after receiving a number of studies of the rig driving recklessly when the wreck occurred. A complete of 16 folks had been harm within the incident. 

Police say they may scent alcohol on Santos on the time of the wreck and that  his eyes appeared “purple and shiny”, and his speech was “slurred and sluggish.” His blood alcohol content material was .13% that night after a blood draw on the hospital. 

Santos is already a registered intercourse offender who was convicted of rape in 1999.