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Truck driver charged in terror accident that overturned a school bus carrying 27 schoolgirls and five teachers
- Truckie charged in September school bus accident
- Crashed into the back of a bus west of Melbourne
- Bus rolled 50 m down an embankment
A trucker has been charged in a collision with a school bus that injured more than two dozen students and teachers.
The truck crashed into the rear of the bus as it slowed to avoid an earlier crash in the western Melbourne suburb of Bacchus Marsh in September.
The force of the collision caused the bus to plummet down an embankment of the Western Highway in Pentland Hills.
The school bus, carrying 27 students and four teachers, rolled 50m behind it and a truck collided in the confusion of a previous truck crash (pictured, emergency services on scene)
There were 27 students and five adults on board the bus, which was due to travel to Melbourne airport.
A 60-year-old Croydon man has been charged with 46 offences, including reckless conduct causing serious injury and reckless conduct endangering life.
He was due to appear in Melbourne Magistrate Court on Monday afternoon.