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The truck driver that veered into a Texas school bus full of preschoolers and killed two people admitted that he used cocaine shortly before the crash.
On March 22, a truck smashed into a bus that was carrying 44 pre-kindergarten students from Tom Green Elementary school who were returning from a field trip to the Capital of Texas Zoo.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said that the cement truck veered into the school bus just before a driver in a third vehicle - a Dodge Charger - crashed into the bus.
The truck's driver was 42-year-old Jerry Hernandez, who has since admitted that he smoked marijuana the night before the crash, got only around three hours of sleep and then woke up for work at 1am and did cocaine.
Hernandez confessed to consuming the illicit drug when he was rushed to hospital after the deadly crash that killed two.
The truck driver that veered into a Texas school bus full of preschoolers and killed two people admitted that he used cocaine shortly before the crash
Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, 5, died from injuries sustained Friday after the school bus he was on was struck by a concrete truck that swerved into the bus's lane
Ulises Rodriguez Montoya was remembered as a happy child who loved dinosaurs and often shared his joy with others
Five-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, who was a preschooler on board, was one of the two people that tragically died in the horrific crash.
Community members described Montoya as a 'child who was filled with a lot of happiness,' which he 'often shared with others,' according to Naira (Dina) Solís Shears, his pre-K bilingual teacher.
'He had a talent for drawing and his favorite thing to draw was dinosaurs. He could almost completely spell the word dinosaur, which demonstrates how smart he was.
'He always had a dinosaur drawn on all of the assignments he turned in. He liked to tell stories and shared many with his friends and family. Above all - he was a loving
