A school bus driver fell asleep, causing a head-on crash in February that injured two 13-year-old boys.
A lawsuit alleges the bus company hired an inexperienced driver who also was working a third-shift job.
The insurance company offered to settle with the boys’ non-English-speaking mothers just hours after the Friday morning crash, an attorney said.
On a February morning on Galbraith Road, a school bus driver fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the double-yellow line and crashed head-on into a vehicle, according to a lawsuit.
The driver of that vehicle was not seriously injured, but the two children in the bus at the time − both 13-year-old boys − were seriously injured. One suffered a neck injury and the other broke his wrist. They were taken to the hospital.
Three hours after the crash, which happened at about 6:30 a.m. on a Friday, an insurance adjustor contacted the boys’ mothers, who are immigrants from Honduras and don’t speak English, and offered to settle the injury claims, according to an attorney for the women.
Alex Durst, who is representing the family (the boys are cousins), described it as
Lawsuit filed after Cincinnati school bus driver fell asleep, crashed
