Bus driver Brett Button has offered a tearful apology as new details from the horrific crash that killed 10 people can be revealed.
Brett Button,the driver of the bus that crashed in the Hunter Valley in June last year,now faces a total of 89 charges including 10 counts of manslaughter.
Brett Button is accused of causing the deaths of 10 people and injuring 25 in one of the country’s worst road accidents.
The parents of one of the victims of the Hunter Valley bus tragedy heard that the driver,Brett Button,would not be in court.
Brett Button,58,is expected to face 52 additional charges after being at the wheel of a coach that rolled over at a roundabout,killing 10 people.
A state government taskforce has been ordered to urgently consider expanding the installation of seatbelts on buses in the wake of the Hunter Valley tragedy.
Madeleine Edsell and Mitchell Gaffney have thanked the community for its support following the wedding night tragedy,while the groom’s parents have called for mandatory seatbelts on buses.
Yvonne Bradford has some reflections for the survivors of the Hunter bus crash. The “big,deep pain” of trauma eventually gets balanced out by new life experiences.
The push to put seatbelts on every single school bus,if implemented,would remove a double standard currently in place in NSW.
NSW Police inspected 20 buses at two of Linq Buslines’ depots,the company at the centre of the Hunter Valley bus crash that killed 10 people.
Victoria is facing calls to fast-track the replacement of more than 100 regional school buses that do not have seatbelts following the Exford Primary bus crash last month and the tragedy in Hunter Valley this week.