The parents of two more team members are suing the Farmingdale School District and the bus company over the accident

The parents of two more Farmingdale High School band musicians have filed lawsuits in connection with the 2023 bus crash that killed dozens of students and killed two adults.

The lawsuits, filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Nassau County, allege the negligence of the Farmingdale School District, Nesconset-based charter company Regency Transportation and bus driver Lisa Schaffer in the Sept. 21, 2023, crash of a chartered bus carrying musicians and chaperones on weekend band camp when a car crashed into the median of a highway in upstate New York.

Some 37 lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of the 44 bus passengers.

The latter two lawsuits were filed on behalf of Diana Prilook and her daughter, identified only by the initials KP, and on behalf of Kristi Crocitto and Robert Crocitto and their daughter, identified only as AC. The lawsuit alleges that the Farmingdale School District failed to take adequate precautions to keep students safe during the trip and that the company was negligent in hiring Schaffer. They are demanding unspecified compensation.

The allegations against the school district include failing to ensure students wore seat belts. According to an ongoing investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, most bus passengers were not wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, but charter bus passengers were not required by law to wear seat belts at the time of the crash. catastrophe. New York State law now requires their use.

In 2023, Newsday reported that the state Department of Transportation placed Nesconset-based Regency on its list of “unacceptable” companies. Federal inspectors, however, found the bus company’s performance to be “satisfactory” and performing better than average compared to national averages.

The two lawsuits, both filed by the same Manhattan firm, use nearly identical language to describe the girls’ physical injuries, down to the “left hip joint tear” that each of the girls allegedly suffered in the crash. Additionally, according to the lawsuits, each girl suffered “serious shock to the nervous system” as well as severe and lasting pain and mental anguish.

Lawyers for the defendants did not comment on the case or respond to emailed requests for comment. Regency and Schaffer attorney Belinda Boone, asked last week to comment on an earlier lawsuit filed against her clients, said she could not comment on pending litigation but “we offer our sincere sympathies to the families involved.”

The lawyer handling the Prilook and Crocittos cases did not comment on the case. School district officials contacted through a spokesman did not comment. Schaffer could not be reached. Prilook could not be contacted. The Crocittos did not immediately respond to a message left for the relative. The man who answered the phone at Regency’s previous number said he was an executive with another bus company, Tri-State, which had no connection with Regency.