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- Truck driver to face trial over faculty bus crash
- Over 30 passengers, together with youngsters, injured
- Instructor broke down as he recalled nightmares
- READ MORE: Driver hailed a hero after bus crash
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A instructor burst into tears in court docket and described listening to youngsters’s voices in flashbacks after a horror faculty bus crash injured dozens of pupils.
Truck driver Brett Russell, 61, will stand trial accused of ploughing right into a Loreto School faculty bus on its method to the airport for a NASA area camp on September, 21, 2022.
The college bus rolled down an embankment off the Western Freeway close to Pentland Hills, west of Melbourne, with the bus driver, 31 college students and lecturers struggling accidents.
Russell was charged with 80 offences, together with harmful driving inflicting severe harm and reckless conduct endangering life, after he allegedly rear-ended the Loreto School Ballarat bus.
On Tuesday, Loreto School instructor Scott Antonio gave proof remotely from Ballarat, after struggling smooth tissue accidents to his neck and again, and psychological accidents within the crash.
He broke down and began crying as he described ‘always listening to voices’ of the scholars, after barrister John Lavery requested him to elucidate if his nightmares and flashbacks had been associated to the collision.
The college bus rolled down an embankment off the Western Freeway close to Pentland Hills, west of Melbourne, with the bus driver, 31 college students and lecturers struggling accidents (pictured)
Truck driver Brett Russell was charged with 80 offences, together with harmful driving inflicting severe harm and reckless conduct endangering life, after he allegedly rear-ended the Loreto School Ballarat bus (pictured: the crashed truck)
‘Mr Antonio, Mr Antonio… they are not on the bus, we will not discover all of them,’ he informed the court docket, describing the voices.
‘What I see is … they’re useless.’ Nobody died within the crash.
Mr Antonio was excused from giving proof as a result of he was ‘visibly and uncontrollably upset’.
The bus was on its method to Melbourne Airport to take the schoolchildren on the journey of a lifetime to NASA area camp in the USA.
The truck driver Russell, who wore a masks and a hoodie exterior court docket, pleaded not responsible to all 80 fees
He’ll stand trial within the County Court docket in April
Russell is accused of ignoring indicators that his B-double truck, towing two trailers, had misplaced braking capability earlier than the crash, about 3.16am on September 21.
Russell’s lawyer questioned a few of the passengers’ treating physicians and psychologists concerning the seriousness of their psychological and bodily accidents, throughout this week’s hearings.
Russell has pleaded not responsible to all 80 fees.
He’ll stand trial within the County Court docket.
The truckie, who stays on bail, will subsequent face court docket on April 8.
