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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Muddy Creek Township, PA) A Canadian truck driver recently pleaded guilty to causing a crash in 2021 on I-79 involving his truck and a school bus. According to court documents, a judge sentenced Karandeep Singh of Canada to 42 months of probation and fines totaling nearly $700,000. Singh pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving, recklessly endangering another person and too slow for conditions. A criminal complaint states Singh was driving his truck 18 miles per hour in Muddy Creek Township along I-79 when a school bus crashed into his truck on November 2nd, 2021. That bus had more than a dozen students from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School and the crash killed a fourteen-year-old and the driver of the school bus, thirty-one-year-old Lindsey Thompkins.