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| ALBANY — The operator of a limousine company at the center of an investigation of the crash in upstate New York that killed 20 people was arrested on Wednesday, according to the State Police. | |
| Nauman Hussain, the son of a Shahed Hussain, the owner of Prestige Limousine, was taken into custody by the State Police during a traffic stop on a highway in the Albany area. The charges were to be announced soon. The lawyer for the company, Lee Kindlon, told Spectrum News that his client, who had been cooperating with the authorities, was expected to be charged with criminally negligent homicide. | |
| The arrest and pending charges come four days after a stretch limousine, rented out by Prestige, ran through a stop sign in Schoharie, N.Y., a town about 40 miles west of Albany, struck two pedestrians and a parked car, and landed in a shallow ravine. All 17 passengers and the limousine’s driver were killed, as were two pedestrians. | The arrest and pending charges come four days after a stretch limousine, rented out by Prestige, ran through a stop sign in Schoharie, N.Y., a town about 40 miles west of Albany, struck two pedestrians and a parked car, and landed in a shallow ravine. All 17 passengers and the limousine’s driver were killed, as were two pedestrians. |
| The arrest is the latest development in a fast-moving investigation focusing on the limousine — a 2001 Ford Excursion — that had repeatedly failed inspections, including one as recently as last month. | |
| The company, which was doing business out of a low-budget hotel north of Albany, has been visited multiple times by the State Police investigators, who are also seeking the elder Mr. Hussain, a former F.B.I. informant. His exact whereabouts is unknown, but the authorities believe that he may be in Pakistan. | |
| [The limo company owner in the crash was revealed as an F.B.I. informant, a recruiter of terrorists and a fraudster.] | |
| The crash on Saturday was the worst transportation-related accident in the country in nine years, dating to a 2009 plane crash outside Buffalo that killed 50 people. | The crash on Saturday was the worst transportation-related accident in the country in nine years, dating to a 2009 plane crash outside Buffalo that killed 50 people. |
| Among the victims in Saturday’s crash were 17 young friends - all between the ages of 24 and 34 — who had been traveling in the limousine for a birthday at a local brewery. | |
| The crash has also raised questions about the regulation and oversight of stretch limousines, specially made vehicles that are built from former cars or sport utility vehicles and often do not have to meet strict federal safety requirements. And while drivers of such elongated vehicles are required to wear seatbelts, passengers in the back are not. | |
| Federal authorities investigating the crash have described the accident as a “high-energy impact,” which drove the limousine’s engine into the driver’s side. State officials have said that the 2001 Ford Excursion was not supposed to be on the road, having failed inspections, including tests of its brakes. |