 The driver also lacked the required endorsement to his license for carrying 15 or more passengers at a time.After the New York State Police (NYSP) determined that the operator, Nauman Hussain, was aware of these issues yet continued to rent the vehicle, he was arrested on a charge of criminally negligent homicide and later indicted on 20 counts each of that charge and second-degree manslaughter; trial had been scheduled for May 2020 but has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.In preliminary court filings, his lawyers have argued that the vehicle's brakes failed in ways that had not been previously noted by state inspectors and therefore Hussain could not have been aware of; they also point to the work the repair shop falsely claimed to have done as the real reason for the brake failure.