A driver is charged with dangerous driving after at least 10 wedding guests died when the bus they were traveling in was in Australia’s worst bus accident in 30 years, police said on Monday.
Twenty-five people were injured in the crash around 11.30pm on Sunday near the town of Greta, about 180km northwest of Sydney, police said.
The bus carrying 35 passengers veered off the road and overturned at a roundabout after a wedding in the Hunter region, a rural area famous for its vineyards and wedding venues.
Police said the driver, a 58-year-old man, was taken to hospital for mandatory drug testing. Bail was refused and he is due to appear in court on Tuesday.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed his “deepest condolences” to the families of those killed and injured.
“We all know the joy of attending a wedding… it’s some of the happiest moments you can have. For such a joyous day in a beautiful place to end with a terrible loss of life and injuries is very cruel, sad and unfair,” Albanese said during a speech to reporters.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said police were treating the case as a single-vehicle accident and the cause may not be known for some time.
The two worst bus accidents in the country were head-on collisions (when vehicles collided head-on), two months apart in 1989, which killed 35 and 21 people, both in the state of New South Wales.
Source: CNN Brasil

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