SANGER, Texas (AP) — The Texas Department of Public Safety says a charter bus driver may have passed out before a wreck north of Sanger that left 18 passengers hurt.

DPS Trooper Lonny Haschel says investigators have determined that 52-year-old Jose Rodriguez of Grand Prairie suffered a sharp pain in his abdomen before the accident early Saturday on Interstate 35. Several passengers on the bus, bound from Dallas to Oklahoma City, were ejected through side windows.

Haschel says a Spanish-speaking trooper interviewed the driver, who said "the last thing he remembered was the sharp pain, and then he was waking up."

Haschel says Rodriguez has a current medical card and recently passed a physical examination. The trooper declined to release the nature of the driver's condition, citing privacy laws.

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Information from: The Dallas Morning News

Information from: Denton Record-Chronicle