Bus crash survivors awarded £40m
A Texas bus company has been ordered to pay almost £40m (€58.8m) to the survivors of a crash that killed four members of a church youth group.
More than half of the award has gone to a man who was left brain damaged when the bus crashed into a motorway concrete pillar while on its way to a summer camp.
A jury in Dallas found Discovery Tours of Texas owner Eric Rockmore was responsible because he knowingly hired an unqualified driver.
A police investigation concluded that cocaine and sedatives taken by the sleepy, inattentive, driver, Ernest Carter, contributed to the crash,
