St. Ignatius hockey team bus crash lawsuits dismissed in Kosciusko County

Claire Reid, South Bend Tribune
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A school bus carrying students from St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago was hit Nov. 12, 2022, in Warsaw, according to police.
A school bus carrying students from St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago was hit Nov. 12, 2022, in Warsaw, according to police.

Lawsuits filed in Kosciusko County related to a Nov. 12, 2022, bus crash that injured multiple members of the Chicago-based St. Ignatius College Prep JV hockey team have been voluntarily dismissed by the prosecution.

Cavanaugh Law Group media spokesperson Anne Kavanaugh wrote in an email to The Tribune that Cavanaugh Law Group prosecuting attorneys "voluntarily dismissed the cases in Indiana" but plan to refile the lawsuits in Cook County, Ill.

The crash occurred just after 8 p.m. Nov. 12 at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Center Street in Warsaw, Ind. while the hockey team was returning home from a tournament in Culver, Ind. A semitruck hit the team's bus, causing the bus to turn over on its side.

The original lawsuit alleged that the semitruck's driver had a blood alcohol level of 0.13%, almost twice the legal limit in Indiana, when he ran a red light and hit the school bus. The original suit named the truck's driver, Victor Santos, along with N&V Trucking Express, B&W Cartage Company, Inc., B&W Cartage, Inc. and B&W Cartage International, Inc., as defendants. All have now been dismissed as defendants in this case.

Parents of the injured hockey players had been named as plaintiffs in the original lawsuit.

Email Tribune staff writer Claire Reid at cereid@gannett.com.

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