School Bus Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide While Speaking On Cell Phone

A school bus driver was listening to his iPod, talking on his cell phone and ran 10 stop signs before a deadly crash in Montgomery County last month, prosecutors said Monday.

Frederick Poust III has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection to the February 17 crash.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said Poust, 38, was listening to his iPod, chatting on his cell phone via a bluetooth device and hadn't slept in two days when he caused a crash that left a 27-year-old man dead.

The accident was caught on tape by the school bus' camera and allegedly shows the bus going through 10 stop signs before crashing into a car driven by 41-year-old Freddie Carroll. Carroll was seriously injured and his passenger, 27-year-old Richard Taylor, was killed. Carroll told Eyewitness News that he has had eight surgeries in three weeks.

Authorities said Poust was behind the wheel and 45 students were on board a Perkiomen Valley school bus when it struck Carroll's car on Route 73.

Police said the bus was turning into the Perkiomen Valley Middle School West parking lot when it collided with a 1999 Honda Civic.

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