School Bus Made U-Turn in Deadly Crash
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Posted on 05/22/2018 8:41:34 PM PDT by Coleus
The 77-year-old school bus driver from the deadly May 17 highway crash in New Jersey had a lengthy history of license suspensions and moving violations, a spokeswoman for the Motor Vehicle Commission told News 4.
Investigators are still probing the cause of the crash, which killed a 10-year-old student and a teacher after the full-size school bus collided with a dump truck on Route 80 near exit 25 in Mount Olive Township. Video from a Department of Transportation camera shows the school bus filled with fifth-graders making a sudden U-turn in a median, sources have told News 4.
The bus, which was carrying 38 students and seven adults from East Brook Middle School in Paramus, was heading to a class field trip to Waterloo Village, a historic site in Stanhope.
The driver, identified as Hudy Mulrow Sr. first got his license in 1975. He had a total of 14 license suspensions, eight speeding tickets, a careless driving ticket and a ticket for an improper turn in 2010, the MVC spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Mulrow remains in the hospital and was unavailable for comment.
The most recent suspension was from Dec. 20 of last year to Jan. 3 of this year for unpaid parking tickets. It was not clear if Paramus officials knew of that suspension; the district was not immediately available for comment.
The driver had a commercial driver's license issued in 2012 and got the school bus endorsement on his commercial driver's license in 2013, the MVC said.
The lawyer representing the family of 10-year-old Miranda Vargas, who was laid to rest Monday, sent a notice of tort claim to the Borough of Paramus and the Paramus school board Tuesday, indicating the family plans to sue. The lawyer is questioning whether the Paramus Board of Education did proper diligence in hiring a driver with his record.
Funeral services for the teacher killed in the crash, Jennifer Williamson-Kennedy, will be held Thursday morning.
see the directions? very simple for a person with a brain and good eyesight
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/kittval.html (different than google map)
Just remember this crap the next time a liberal says more of us should be taking mass transit.
More of our “public servants” keeping us safe.
99% chance he’s a good friend or family of a school board member.
Here’s a suggestion. Quit taking students on field trips. If their parents want them to go, they can take them.
Wait until they replace him with a drunken illegal Alien for a driver.
Does no one check the background of school bus drivers?
Do they hire the first person who applies for the job?
This is a glaring lack of oversight by human resources professionals.
Fire the people doing the hiring.
State worker union members are far more important than the lives of children in NJ.
"...fire the people doing the hiring..."
They aren’t low wage in NJ! It was $50/hour in Hunterdon County back in the 90’s, must be even higher now.
Very sad story. If we licensed school teachers how many of them would be suspended for slaughtering kids’ brains?
...bout 5 miles from me, and it’s a couple of minutes from the exit (Waterloo).. as a matter,you can hear
traffic on rt80 from the village. Either he’s never been there or he forgot...but he definitely double down on the illegal turn
Nothing unusual about bad skool bus drivers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfFZZKFeqUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9ippyMUKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDA1cS-Aqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHnKc_cZDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3VQy1-MJo4
How can a man with “a total of 14 license suspensions, eight speeding tickets, a careless driving ticket and a ticket for an improper turn in 2010” get a school bus endorsement, and at the age of 72? Someone at the licensing authority needs to go to jail (along with the driver).
Authorities can’t figure out the cause of the crash?
The lawyer is questioning whether the Paramus Board of Education did proper diligence in hiring a driver with his record.
DUH.
And why is the NTSB refusing to investigate this? Yes, it's a no-brainer as to cause, but if anyone thinks the locals/state will honestly investigate how the driver came to be hired, I've got news for you.
The driver was a public employee. You really need to ask?
But look on the bright side. Paramus schools are gun free zones and they NEVER had mass shootings. Seriously, when we took the firearms safety courses, and since we’ve been going to the range I realized that if driving safety was taken half a seriously as gun safety our insurance premiums would be like chump change.
FTA: He had a total of 14 license suspensions, eight speeding tickets, a careless driving ticket and a ticket for an improper turn in 2010
He will be back soon driving a bus.
I have a relative that manages the bus dept of a local school board. In his case they are employees of the school and belong to the teacher’s union. If they pass the physical they can’t get rid of them.
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