Chartered Bus Accident – Bus Drives off Ravine

Our client, a seventeen year old high school student, was traveling back to Houston from a school trip to Disney World in Florida.  The driver of the charter bus fell asleep at the wheel while the clients were driving through Alabama, and the bus careened off the road and into a ravine.  Our client was among the injured, and sustained  severe lacerations to his back, elbows, knees, severe herniations to his lumbar spine, and a scalping injury that left him with a permanent scar across the entire top of his head.

Our client’s family sought out the Amaro Law Firm’s help to find out what happened and attain justice.  In discovery, our attorneys learned that the bus’s video system malfunctioned and that the students were not shown a mandatory pre-trip safety briefing.  Our attorneys further discovered that the driver of the bus had misrepresented his medical conditions to the charter bus company and did not disclose potentially incapacitating medical conditions.

After attaining a settlement for our minor client at mediation, the Amaro Law Firm also assisted our client’s family in finding an investment management counselor to help set him up for a promising future despite the traumatic injuries he had endured.