The driver in a bus crash that left a Paramus student and teacher dead in 2018 was indicted Wednesday and will be arraigned later this month.

Hudy Muldrow, 78, faces two counts of reckless vehicular homicide, 25 counts of assault by auto, and 16 more charges of assault by auto as a disorderly persons offense, according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

Muldrow, who was employed by the Paramus Board of Education, was part of a three-bus caravan headed to Waterloo Village in Stanhope for a fifth-grade school field trip May 17. He missed the exit and allegedly attempted to steer the bus across three lanes to reach the official-use-only turnaround in the grassy median, court documents say.

The bus collided with a dump truck and flipped over on its side in the median, records show. The bus cab was sheared from the chassis.

The crash resulted in the deaths of East Brook Middle School student Miranda Vargas, 10, and teacher Jennifer Williamson-Kennedy, 51, on Route 80 in Mount Olive. Forty other passengers and the driver of the dump truck were also injured.

Muldrow, of Woodland Park, is scheduled for an arraignment April 29.

Muldrow's license had been suspended 14 times over the years, most recently in December 2017. Six of the suspensions were for unpaid parking tickets. But Muldrow had also received eight speeding tickets over the years and was cited for careless driving.

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He was banned from driving after he was charged and conditionally released last year.

In the nearly full year since the crash, legislation has been passed to further scrutinize bus drivers and to make buses safer. In January, Gov. Phil Murphy signed two bills related to school bus safety.

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One bill includes a mandatory 90-day suspension of a school bus driver's endorsement if the driver accumulates three or more moving violations in a three-year period, or six or more penalty points.

Murphy signed another law providing $250,000 to study ways to make school buses safer.

The state Assembly also approved a bill that would require school bus operators to make information available on their buses to let the public report driver misconduct.

Many memorials, vigils, fundraisers and remembrances were held in the wake of the crash as the motto "Paramus Strong" was heard throughout the borough. A number of lawsuits were also filed after the crash.

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