SAN ANTONIO, TX – A San Antonio judge sentenced the driver responsible for a fatal 2019 crash that took the life of two women last Friday.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, Fermin Hernandez Jr. was eating while driving along I-35 at about 7 p.m. April 29th when he bent over to pick a lid off the floor of his vehicle and rammed into the back of a Toyota Yaris.
Two occupants in the Toyota, Tais Alejandra Hinojosa, 18, and her grandmother, Maria Carmen Hinojosa, 73, were rushed to the hospital following the rear-end collision. Tais was pronounced dead later the same day while Maria succumbed to her injuries five days later.
A third occupant in the Toyota, Maria Ramos, was hospitalized in critical condition but has since recovered from her injuries.
Hernandez, now 31-years-old, pled guilty to two counts of criminally negligent homicide and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to five years for each of the counts, all to be served at the same time.
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