KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee bus driver was texting with a prostitute when he crashed his bus into another bus and killed three people in December, recently released police records reveal.

Knox County bus driver James Davenport, 48, was texting with Lacey Victoria Easterly, 25, throughout the day Dec. 2 and in the moments leading up to a violent collision. Police records show Easterly is an inmate in the Knox County detention facility stemming from a prostitution conviction in May, according to WBIR.

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Police say Davenport, who died of natural causes this month, was driving 57 mph in a 40 mph zone while texting Easterly when he crossed the median on Asheville Highway while carrying 22 children and crashed into another bus around 2:50 p.m., WATE and the Knoxville News-Sentinel report.

The collision killed students Zykia Burns, 6, and Serayna Glasper, 7. Teacher’s aide Kimberly Riddle, 48, was also killed in the crash.

The text exchanges between Davenport and others throughout the day Dec. 2 also suggest he may have been selling prescription drugs, and officers recovered morphine and oxycodone in his fanny pack. Davenport denied using drugs the day of the crash, and drug tests results confirmed his story, the News-Sentinel reports.

Davenport’s texting activity was released by police this week.

The day started with Davenport texting Easterly: “==how many more do we need” and she responded with “Like 6 I guess idk,” according to the news site.

Later in the morning Easterly asks Davenport to “please get here ASAP so we can move to another motel (I) gotta be outta here by ten.”

Other texts included a message from Davenport to “Bone Steph” asking “how many,” to which Bone Steph responded “One each gang on” and “Put em in cig pack ppat in mx car one each,” the News-Sentinel reports.

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“Henry Rick” also texted Davenport and asked him if he “Got any h??”

“No,” Davenport texted back.

Later in the afternoon, Easterly apparently became frustrated with Davenport for not responding to her texts and sent another message.

“Well never mind Rachel running out here with Robert to take me to the emergency room because I’ve overdosed I think,” the text read.

She also texted that she smacked her “forehead into the TV stand and it woke me up because I started foaming at the mouth,” WBIR reports.

The two also argued about whether the bus driver could take Easterly to a court date the next day, telling Davenport that a friend “said you’d let me down and not even worry about taking me.”

According to the News-Sentinel, “The crash was reported at 2:50 p.m. Davenport’s last text to Easterly was time-stamped at 2:45 p.m. Investigators determined his phone was running about six minutes fast.”

After the crash, Easterly continued to text Davenport, according to the News-Sentinel.

At 4:58 p.m.: “Will u come over please I posted my ad and I may have a call or two to go to so can u come over I’m sorry for how I acted I hope we r still together I do live u baby but let me know if u r on your way.”

And again at 10:48 p.m.: “One more thing this guy that found me on bp (backpage) felt sorry 4 me and said he wants to start helping me and be my sugar daddy said he’d send me money through money gram at Walmart right now he’d in line I guess u can’t even take me to get that either right.”

Davenport’s mother found him dead at his home June 1.

Police told the News-Sentinel they don’t intend to pursue an investigation into Davenport’s apparent drug deals.

“Prior to his death, the investigation was focused on the bus crash,” Knox County Assistant District Attorney General Sean McDermott said. “If that had spun into other investigations, that avenue is now closed because of his death.”

The police investigation into the crash revealed that the other bus involved, “driven by Joe Gallman, was also speeding at 55 miles per hour in a 40 miles per hour zone. It was later learned Gallman was also not properly licensed to drive a school bus,” WATE reports.