SCHOHARIE, N.Y.—Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going on trial.
Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in connection with the Oct. 6, 2018 crash—one of the deadliest U.S. road wrecks of the past two decades—in Schoharie, a village west of Albany.
Jury selection began Monday in Schoharie County Court for a trial expected to last at least four weeks….