A Zanesville truck driver on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges in the November crash that killed three Tusky Valley students and three chaperones.
Court records show 61-year-old Jacob McDonald is still in jail in licking county on a 1-million-dollar bond. He pleaded not guilty to a 26-count indictment.
Prosecutors allege that in the November 14th crash on i-70, near Etna, McDonald did not slow down and may have been using a cell phone when he started the chain reaction crash.
Investigators say the truck he was driving at 74 miles per hour crashed into the rear of a vehicle carrying the chaperones and continued into the rear of the charter bus. Those vehicles had slowed down because of an earlier accident.
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