Maintenance chief guilty of manslaughter over limo crash which left 20 dead

Nauman Hussain failed to carry out safety checks which would have prevented the crash in which 20 people died (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

A limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday over a crash that killed 20 people in rural New York, one of the deadliest US road wrecks in two decades.

Jurors reached their verdict during their second day of deliberations in the trial of Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine.