School bus driver charged in fatal crash

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

(CNN) — A school bus driver is being charged following a crash in northern New Jersey last week that left two people dead, the Morris County prosecutor's office said Thursday.

Hudy Muldrow, 77, faces two counts of reckless vehicular homicide/death by auto, the prosecutor said in a news release. The investigation into the accident remains open, according to the prosecutor.

The school bus collided with a dump truck May 17 in the county's Mount Olive Township. Morris County is about 50 miles west of New York City.

Muldrow was driving 38 fifth-graders and seven adults from East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, for a field trip when the accident happened.

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By Carma Hassan and Joe Sterling, CNN
Updated 2206 GMT (0606 HKT) May 24, 2018


Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/24/us/ny-bus-driver-accident/index.html

[trusty elf]

1. The driver is 77 years old?

Shouldn't there be age limits for this kind of job?

Also, it just sucks that many people have no choice but to continue work until they croak.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. The link stated that "the driver had 16 traffic violations and had his license suspended 14...

"the driver had 16 traffic violations and had his license suspended 14 times in the past four decades."

It did not make clear which driver, but maybe it was the school bus driver. If so, his being 77 may have had nothing to do with his ability to drive properly. Bad drivers come in every age.

[kacekwl]

3. The suspensions and violations

we're for parking tickets, unpaid fines etc.

[ailsagirl]

4. And yet he was entrusted with driving children to/from school??