The charter bus driver involved in this past Monday’s fatal bus crash in Queens should have been prohibited from driving buses in New York due to a previous Operating Under the Influence (OUI) conviction in Connecticut.
Raymond Mong was charged with drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in a 2015 incident. He, along with 2 others, were tragically killed this past Monday when his speeding tour bus plowed into an MTA bus.
Anyone convicted of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in injuries is barred in New York from driving a bus for five years.
Questions also have been raised as to how Mong was able to remain employed as a bus driver when he was previously required by the courts to use a breathalizer device to start his private car.
The investigation to the Queens crash is still ongoing and results of a toxicology test on Mong have yet to be released.
SOURCES:
NY DAILY NEWS
NY TIMES
