Truck Driver Guilty in Ohio Crash that Killed 6 on School Trip

Truck driver guilty in Ohio crash that killed 6 on school trip

NEWARK, Ohio — A truck driver who triggered a chain-reaction crash with a bus that killed three Ohio high school band students and three adults was convicted of vehicular homicide Friday but cleared on more serious charges. The three students killed in the 2023 crash were on a charter bus, and a teacher and two chaperones in another vehicle hit by the tractor trailer also died. Licking County Judge David Branstool found Jacob McDonald, of Zanesv…

Truck driver found guilty of misdemeanor vehicular homicide, cleared of all felony charges in fatal crash with HS marching band bus

A truck driver has been cleared of all felony charges and found guilty of several lesser charges after a fatal crash with a high school marching band bus in 2023.  61-year-old truck driver Jacob McDonald was found guilty on six misdemeanor counts of vehicular homicide on Friday, May 16th by Judge David Branstool in Licking County, Ohio.  According to MySanAntonio, McDonald was initially facing 26 charges: six third-degree felony counts of aggrav…