Man charged in fatal Athens bus crash has pretrial set

John Stevens (Source: Henderson County Jail)
John Stevens (Source: Henderson County Jail)
Published: Jan. 13, 2023 at 10:24 AM CST
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ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - A man charged in a fatal school bus crash now has a pretrial set.

The pretrial is set to take place at 1:30 p.m. on March 8.

John Stevens, 82, was the driver of an Athens ISD school bus which was involved in a crash with a train on Jan. 25, 2019. Christopher Bonilla, a 13-year-old Athens Middle School student, was killed in the crash. Nine-year-old Joselyne Torres, a student from Central Athens Elementary, was injured when she was trapped inside the bus.

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