The group was headed to a brewery outside Cooperstown, New York. Victim Axel Steenburg had hired the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine for an outing to celebrate the 30th birthday of his wife, Amy, who was King's daughter. There’s no way we’ll ever make that up, no matter how many trials they have.” I mean, we lost four daughters and three sons-in-law in one shot. “It’s not going to be closure for families that lost their kids. “All we can do is move on and hope that we can get justice,” said Tom King, the father of four sisters killed in the crash. A surprise twist came last fall when a judge rejected the deal, setting up the trial this week a few miles down the road from the accident site. After pandemic-related delays in the criminal case, they were exasperated by a 2021 announcement of a plea deal that would have spared Hussain prison time. The victims' relatives have been on an emotional rollercoaster ever since. Seventeen people using the limo for a birthday celebration were killed, along with the driver and two bystanders outside a country store where the vehicle crashed. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Schoharie County Court. road wrecks of the past two decades - in Schoharie, a village west of Albany. 6, 2018 crash - one of the deadliest U.S. Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in connection with the Oct. Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going on trial. Maysoon Khan and Michael Hill, Associated Press
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