Jacob McDonald is facing 26 charges, including six third-degree felony counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, nine fourth-degree felony counts of vehicular assault and 11 first-degree misdemeanor counts of assault. The charges relate to a bus crash that occurred on November 14, 2023, when McDonald was driving a semi that collided with a charter bus carrying students and chaperones from Tuscarawas Valley Middle-High School in eastern Ohio. The charter bus was carrying 54 people and was traveling westbound on I-70 toward Columbus for a performance at the Ohio School Boards Association conference when the crash happened at 8:50am. McDonald, driving a 2019 Freightliner semi, failed to decelerate as traffic slowed for a crash further down the highway. McDonald struck an SUV in front of him, occupied by a teacher and two parent chaperones, before driving over it and crashing into the rear of the charter bus. The impact sent the bus into another SUV and a commercial truck, totaling five cars involved in the crash. The semi caught fire, with the flames spreading to the rear of the charter bus. Eighteen people were injured in the incident, and six died.