A driver has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for causing a Texas church bus crash that killed 13 people.
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Twenty-one-year-old Jack Dillon Young of Leakey, Texas, was sentenced on Friday after pleading no contest in May to 13 counts of intoxication manslaughter and one count of intoxication assault.
He had faced up to 270 years in prison after a three-day sentencing hearing.
Prosecutors said Young was driving his pickup while under the influence of a prescription sedative and had smoked marijuana before the colliding with a church bus in March 2017 on US 83 near Uvalde, about 120 kilometres west of San Antonio.
Defence lawyer Rogelio Munoz asked for mercy and said doctors didn't properly monitor Young's prescription drug use.
Australian Associated Press