Cement-truck driver pleads not guilty in bus driver's death
Photo credit: NCPD; Howard Schnapp | Raymond Ragen, left, 44, of Mineola, faces arraignment Wednesday in First District Court in Hempstead in the July 23, 2012, crash, pictured right, that killed mini-school-bus driver Jorge Guevara, 45. (Jan. 22, 2013)
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A trucker arrested on vehicular homicide charges was high on a prescription drug and using a cellphone when his cement mixer plowed into a school bus last summer in Locust Valley, killing the driver, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Raymond Ragen, 44, of 35 Washington Ave., Mineola, was under the influence of Valium, and talking on his cellphone in the moments before the July 23 head-on collision,...
