The owner of a New York Car Service York limousine company whose vehicle crashed when the brakes failed, killing 20 people, will go on trial in May after a judge overturned his previous plea deal.

Nauman Hussain ran the unlicensed limo company out of a motel his family owned in the town of Wilton, 40 miles north of Albany.

On October 6, 2018 a group of friends celebrating a 30th birthday hired a limo - with one of them texting her sister shortly before climbing in, saying the vehicle was 'in terrible condition'.

The brakes failed at 60mph, around 2pm, and the limo ran over an intersection near Schoharie, crashing into a ditch next to the Apple Barrel Country Store.

The driver, 17 passengers and two bystanders in the parking lot were killed.

Among them were four sisters and their husbands.