A court commissioner has rescheduled a preliminary hearing for the driver of a tour bus that crashed in Delaware, killing two passengers and injuring dozens of others.
The commissioner postponed the hearing after 56-year-old Jinli Zhao of Flushing, New York, who speaks little English, appeared in court Wednesday without a lawyer and was unable to answer simple questions.
A prosecutor said he had spoken by phone with a New York lawyer who intends to represent Zhao, but the lawyer has not filed papers to appear in Delaware.
Through a friend acting as an interpreter, Zhao asked for a month's delay and was granted a Nov. 5 hearing date.
Zhao was charged with two counts of operating a vehicle causing the death of another person after the Sept. 21 crash.
