Irving company that ran bus in deadly crash has been sued at least six times for accidents

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The Irving-based company that operated a bus that crashed in Mexico earlier this month leaving eight people dead has been sued in Texas at least 11 times in...

reached out to the governor of Zacatecas, and La Secretaría del Zacatecano Migrante about the July accident and Zavala Plus. Neither responded to requests for comment. The Zacatecas attorney general’s office said it could not comment on an ongoing investigation.

The drive from the Fort Worth office of the bus company to the location where the July accident took place takes about 12 hours and 30 minutes. A Zavala Plus customer since 2017, Patricia Chavez, whose mother was among those injured in the July accident, said every time she traveled with the company, there were two drivers. One drives from the U.S. to the cross-border point and the other takes the bus from there to the final destination in Mexico.Reyna Jr. said that since the bus tickets were sold in Texas, the company can be taken to court in the state.

Another lawsuit was filed in Travis County in 2019 related to a bus accident in Austin. The case was settled with terms undisclosed. A case related to auto damages was filed in Bexar County in 2013, and both parties settled. No terms were disclosed.The company faces two other lawsuits related to the death of employee Aaron Sandoval-Flores while performing maintenance on one of the company’s buses in September 2020, court documents state.

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