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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/nat...482924481.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_CHBrand

At least one person is dead after a full-size school bus with middle school students aboard collided with a dump truck on a major New Jersey highway Thursday, a violent accident that ripped the undercarriage completely off the bus and left it demolished on its side in the median, two sources tell News 4.

An unknown number of children were on board the school bus at the time of the 10:20 a.m. crash on Route 80 near exit 25 in Mount Olive Township, according to the New Jersey State Police. Many injuries have been reported.
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No additional details on the children or the nature of the injuries were available. Morristown Medical Center confirmed it was receiving patients but a spokesperson did not know how many were expected to arrive at the hospital.

Photos obtained by News 4 shows the heavily damaged bus on its side in the median, surrounded by dozens of emergency and law enforcement vehicles. The front of it is barely recognizable, a mangled chunk of broken-apart machinery spread from the highway shoulder lane through the guardrail and into the grassy median, where police and first responders are seen tending to stunned children. The undercarriage, the bus wheels still attached, lays perpendicular to the overturned bus, stretching out over multiple lanes of the highway.

The side of the bus says Paramus Board of Education, according to Mount Olive Township Mayor Rob Greenbaum. The Paramus transportation office declined to share information with News 4, calling the situation "upsetting." The school district's office said the superintendent is working on a statement.

Gov. Murphy has also been briefed on the situation, and the National Transportation Safety Board says it is gathering information on the crash.

Route 80 is closed in both directions in the area, with westbound traffic diverted at exit 26. Expect heavy traffic and delays on Route 46, Mount Olive police say.
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I don't think that I have ever seen a school bus accident where the entire undercarriage was peeled away like a sardine can. Poor kids.
 
Two people were killed and dozens hurt when a school bus carrying middle school students from the Paramus School District and a dump truck hit on Route 80 in Mount Olive, New Jersey, Thursday around 9:30 a.m., police One teacher and one child died, and 43 others on the bus were hurt, according to Gov. Phil Murphy. The driver of the dump truck was hurt.

The bus landed on its side in the median with heavy damage to the front end. The top of the bus came completely off the undercarriage. Children were seen in the median area away from the bus. The back of the bus was also badly damaged.

http://www.fox13news.com/news/school-bus-accident-in-nj
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-jersey-school-bus-crash-driver-illegal-u-turn-officials-say/
Officials say the bus driver in the deadly school bus crash in New Jersey made an illegal turn before colliding with a dump truck on Thursday. It happened on Interstate 80 near Mount Olive. A student and teacher were killed, and 43 other people on the bus were hospitalized. One child is in a medically induced coma.

The East Brook Middle School bus was part of a field trip to historic Waterloo Village. Local authorities say the bus missed an exit and tried to make an illegal U-turn before it crashed, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.

"I'm going to need about 20 ambulances, I have a full school bus, and I have victims on the ground," an emergency responder could be heard saying in a 911 call.

The violent force of the crash ripped the bus packed with fifth graders in two pieces and flipped it over. The bus did have seatbelts. Theo Ancevski, 11, was onboard during the collision.

"A lot of people were screaming. And they were hanging from their seatbelts… A few people got out of the windows and they got out of the emergency exit on the top of the roof," Ancevski said.

Emergency responders rushed to the scene. Canine units searched through wreckage and woods for passengers who may have been ejected. Dozens of victims were taken to local hospitals. The dump truck driver was also hospitalized.
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The New Jersey state police and the Morris County prosecutor's office are leading the investigation into the crash. It's unclear if the driver of the bus will face any charges. Paramus school district is canceling all field trips for the remainder of the year.

Why didn't he just go to the next exit. Is it one of those deals where the next exit may be 10 miles down the road? Was this a regular bus driver? I'm just stunned that someone would do something so stupid with people on board. I dare say if that bus hadn't had seatbelts the casualties would be much higher.
 
I'm glad to see they hold their drivers to a high standard. :punch:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ey-school-bus-crash-driver-license/635937002/
The reported driver of the New Jersey school bus that collided with a dump truck last week, leaving two dead, has a long history of tickets, moving violations and license suspensions, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission confirmed Tuesday.

The bus driver, Hudy Muldrow, 77, of Paterson, N.J., has had his license suspended 14 times since he began driving in 1975, said Mairin Bellack, a commission spokesperson. Muldrow has eight speeding tickets on his record, as well as one careless driving ticket and a summons for unsafe operation of a motor vehicle, from 2003, Bellack said.

Six license suspensions were because of unpaid parking tickets, including Muldrow’s most recent, which lasted from Dec. 20, 2017, to Jan. 3, 2018. The state also once suspended his commercial driver’s license for administrative reasons, Bellack said.
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Many of those injured have been released from area hospitals. But those with the most serious injuries remain hospitalized.

Muldrow's license is valid, according to the Motor Vehicle Commission. But it remains unclear what charges, if any, he could face for the accident.

According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which oversees Commercial Driver's License regulations, he could lose his commercial license for a year if he’s convicted of negligent driving that results in a fatality.

The Morris County Prosecutor's Office is handling the investigation, but has been exceptionally tight-lipped about its findings. No new information has been released since Friday.

Police declined to comment on the department of transportation video, which has not been publicly released.

Though investigators have not announced charges or moving violations relating to the crash, both Muldrow and the school board that employs him could face a civil suit.
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But some cautioned against rushing to judgment about the accident’s cause, regardless of Muldrow’s prior record or his age.

“Presumably, if he can maintain a CDL, he was passing all the qualifications,” said Steve Carrellas, head of the New Jersey chapter of the National Motorists Association. “If everything was OK, this is just one of those things that clearly could have been avoided, even after the missed exit … it was just bad judgment."

Muldrow needed a commercial driver’s license to legally drive a school bus. And he had met the host of necessary medical and physical requirements, like having at least 20/40 vision in each eye (with or without corrective lenses), 70 degrees of peripheral vision in each eye and the ability to recognize red, green and amber colors.

Applicants must pass a criminal history background check to get a CDL. And federal law requires school bus drivers to always carry a signed medical examiner’s fitness statement, which is to be renewed every two years. Bus drivers also are required to obtain passenger and school bus endorsements, which verify the background and health information.

Drivers must be at least 21 years old with three years of driving experience to get a commercial driver's license. Although there is no mandatory retirement age, the commission can suspend a driver’s endorsement for many reasons, including the discovery of a medical issue, a criminal history or a poor driving record.

Despite his previous record, Muldrow had no active points on his license, the commission said.
 
77 is too damn old to be driving a school bus.
His driving record seems rife with issues.
He needs to be charged and sued.

Nothing worse than not knowing when to hang it up.
 
http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/...s_ineligible_to_drive.html#incart_river_index
The New Jersey bus driver charged in the double-fatal cash last monthwas barred from transporting students for a month earlier this school year before getting his privileges reinstated in January, according to letters sent to Paramus school officials.

A Dec. 21 letter sent to Hudy Muldrow from the state Department of Education said that the Motor Vehicle Commission informed education officials that the 77-year-old's license was suspended or revoked and that his medical certificate expired, according to documents obtained by NorthJersey.com.

On the same day, the Department of Education sent a letter to Paramus school officials informing the district of the suspension.
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Six of the suspensions, including the most recent one that triggered the Dec. 21 letter from the Department of Education, were for parking violations.

Seven other suspensions were for administrative or paperwork reasons. One suspension, in 1977, was for driving while his license was suspended.

Within days of the December 2017 suspension, Muldrow filed the paperwork necessary to get his license restored, NorthJersey.com reported.

The state sent a letter to Muldrow Jan. 24 confirming his license and certification to transport students was restored. He had a valid license at the time of the May 17 crash on Interstate 80. Muldrow earned $22,930 a year as a Paramus school bus driver, payroll records show.
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"A New Jersey bus driver who pleaded guilty in the 2018 deaths of a middle school teacher and student who were killed in a crash after he made an illegal u-turn across a highway was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.

Hudy Muldrow, 79, of Woodland Park, was taking a group of fifth-grade students and teachers from East Brook Middle School in Paramus to Waterloo Village, a museum in Byram Township, for a field trip on May 17, 2018, when the fatal accident occurred.

He was indicted last year on two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and 25 counts of assault by auto. Muldrow pleaded guilty to reckless vehicular homicide, assault by auto and child endangerment this past December, according to NBC New York.

Under his plea deal, Morris County prosecutors agreed to dismiss 20 of the assault by auto charges, the outlet reports.

A judge sentenced him Wednesday afternoon to 10 years in state prison, NBC New York reports."

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