SLIPPERY ROCK — Charges of vehicular homicide were advanced to county Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, April 26, against a Canadian man who was driving the tractor trailer involved in a 2021 fatal school bus crash on Interstate 79.

A school bus driver and a passenger died in the November crash in Muddy Creek Township.

The charges were filed in January 2023 against Karandeep Singh, 30, of Calgary, Alberta, in the death of Lindsay Thompkins, 31, of Aliquippa, Beaver County, and a 14-year-old girl, who was among the 13 students from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Beaver County aboard the bus.

Singh appeared in court Wednesday with defense attorney Adam Bishop for a hearing before District Judge Joseph Nash on the charges of felony homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle, summaries reckless driving, operating a vehicle with unsafe equipment and driving too slow for conditions.