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Trial over bus crash that killed West Chicago man, 3 others, delayed

Posted March 05, 2008 10:00 pm

Associated Press

FORREST CITY, Ark. -- A trial has been delayed for a bus driver charged with four counts of negligent homicide for a crash in Arkansas that killed two people from Illinois, including a West Chicago man.

Court officials say Felix Badillo Tapia's trial will start no sooner than May Fifth, when a new criminal docket begins in St. Francis County. His trial over the November 25th bus crash was to begin Thursday.

Police say 28-year-old Tapia of Brownsville, Texas, was under the influence of amphetamines at the time of the crash and didn't have a required relief driver with him.

Three people on the bus died, including Raul Lopez of West Chicago and Maria Del Carmen Fuentes Vallejo of Plano. The driver of a second vehicle also died.

The bus was carrying 47 people from Chicago to Dallas.

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