Louisville,KY : Southern Indiana bus driver allegedly high on drugs when he caused a triple-fatal crash on October, Friday 6th 2017

A southern Indiana man is facing charges for being allegedly being high on drugs behind the wheel of a bus and causing a crash in that killed three people.

Indiana State Police arrested 46-year-old Brian L. Hodges of New Albany on Friday for the July 22nd crash in Bloomington, Indiana.

In a release from the Monroe County Sheriff, investigators say Hodges was driving a passenger bus traveling from Chicago to Louisville. The bus was on Indiana Business 37 North, when it crashed into a minivan stopped in a construction zone. The impact created a chain reaction of collisions that killed three people and seriously injured three others.

The crash killed 54-year-old Rose Pettus, 30-year-old Shante Lewis and 29-year-old Orlando Lewis, Jr. of Greenwood, Indiana.

A blood test following the accident shows Hodges had amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system, the sheriff's department said. Investigators say the GPS system on the bus shows it was traveling 65-miles-per-hour, which was posted as 30 miles per hour.

Hodges faces three counts of reckless homicide, three counts of causing death while operating a vehicle with a schedule 1 or 2 substance in the blood and two counts of causing serious bodily injury with a schedule 1 or 2 substance in the body. Bond is set at $20,000 surety and $500 cash.

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Southern Indiana bus driver allegedly high on drugs when he caused a triple-fatal crash