COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- The driver of a truck that crashed into a bus carrying high school band members on Interstate 70 in 2023, killing six and injuring dozens of others, was not paying attention at the time of the crash, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

On Nov. 14, 2023, a charter bus carrying 54 people connected to the Tuscarawas Valley Middle-High School band was traveling westbound on I-70 toward Columbus for a performance at the Ohio School Boards Association conference. The collision occurred at about 8:50 a.m., when Jacob McDonald, driving a 2019 Freightliner semi, failed to decelerate as traffic slowed for a crash farther down the highway.

McDonald, 61, struck an SUV in front of him, occupied by a teacher and two parent chaperones, bef

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