The man who was behind the wheel of a minivan that caused a Clark County school bus to overturn Aug. 22 with 52 students inside, killing one and injuring more than 20 others, was found guilty Wednesday of multiple felonies.
A Clark County Common Pleas Court jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday before finding Hermanio Joseph, 36, guilty of aggravated vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter.
Aiden Clark, 11, died after being ejected from the Northwestern Local Schools bus that overturned in German Township, which is northwest of Springfield and about 57 miles southwest of Columbus. More than 20 other students who were on the bus were injured in the crash.
Joseph, an immigrant from Haiti, had been driving east on Route 41 around 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 22 when the Honda Odyssey minivan he was driving crossed the centerline on the two-lane road and struck the westbound Northwestern Local Schools bus that had been headed west, an Ohio State Highway Patrol investigation determined.