Houston, TX – The estate of one of 17 people killed on a trip to a religious festival has filed a lawsuit against the driver, owner and manufacturer of the bus that blew a tire and skidded off the highway.
The lawsuit filed late yesterday in Harris County seeks unspecified damages, and is at least the second lawsuit stemming from the Aug. 8 crash in Sherman that injured the 38 other people on board.
The suit was filed on behalf of Cham Nguyen, a parishioner who was killed when the bus operated by Angel Tours crashed on its way to Missouri.
Federal investigators say the bus had blown a tire that had been illegally refitted with new tread.
The passengers on the bus were members of a Vietnamese Catholic group.
Repeated attempts by The Associated Press to reach Angel de la Torre, owner of the bus company, have been unsuccessful.
Nguyen's grandson, 46-year-old Peter Pham, said he rushed to Sherman immediately after learning of the accident and tried to find his relatives.
He said information was hard to come by.
He eventually found his grandmother's body in Fort Worth.