Australia- Bus carrying wedding guests in Australian wine region rolls over, killing 10 and injuring 25, 12 June '23, *Bus driver arrested*

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News Alert: Hunter Valley Wedding Crash: Mystery Vehicle Tailing Bus Before Fatal Accident

News Alert: Hunter Valley Wedding Crash: Mystery Vehicle Tailing Bus Before Fatal Accident Authorities are seeking information about a vehicle captured in CCTV footage trailing a bus involved in the tragic Hunter Valley wedding crash, which claimed the lives of 10 people. In their ongoing...
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Authorities are seeking information about a vehicle captured in CCTV footage trailing a bus involved in the tragic Hunter Valley wedding crash, which claimed the lives of 10 people.

In their ongoing investigation into the incident, the police are urging the driver of the unidentified vehicle to come forward. They believe that the driver may possess crucial evidence shedding light on the events leading up to the devastating crash.
 
they'll get you said:
He doesn’t seem to care. This is him leaving court today.


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I wonder if this photo has been photoshopped. If so, that’s pretty disgusting in itself. Hard to imagine he would acted this way considering the circumstances. Watching the video of him leaving the court house doesn’t show the finger action.
 
NSW premier and health minister give updates on wedding bus crash tragedy

Crisis support centres will remain open in the NSW Hunter Valley region for the next week as the NSW government says it will contribute $100,000 to a new fund to support the families of the devastating bus crash that killed 10 people on Sunday night.

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"It will be distributed but there will be certain guidelines and set-up so that we can help as many people as we can," he said.

"There are two young children that have lost their parents, they're going to need ongoing support."
 
First responders to Australia's worst bus crashes offer advice after Hunter Valley tragedy

"I felt very sorry for the people involved in it, which anybody would," Mr Walkden said.

"[My] first initial thought was, 'Oh not again' or, 'Not another one'."

Mr Walken — a State Emergency Service (SES) volunteer of more than 35 years — was one of the first responders treating dozens of people injured when two buses collided in northern NSW just before Christmas in 1989.
 
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Teachers raised ‘concerns’ about Hunter Valley bus driver after school excursion

A school on the NSW Central Coast has told police and parents that driver Brett Button left teachers “concerned” on a recent trip to Bathurst.
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Teachers raised ‘concerns’ about Hunter Valley bus driver after school excursion​


Probably behind a paywall, but essentially Button was one of the drivers who took a group of year 5 kids from Central Coast’s Green Point Christian College on an overnight trip to Bathurst, 10 days before the bus crash & the teachers raised concerns about Button & reported their concerns when they returned.


The school has contacted parents, the bus company & the police.

Thank god those kids are ok!
 
Doesitmakesense said:
I was speaking of this today. I don't think any amount of jail time could be worse to me than how I would beat myself up about an incident like this. This is not me saying the driver doesn't deserve the full force of the law. Just I think you would mentally punish yourself more than what the law could through at y
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Other than the Judge making a comment about him "suffering" and that she could see a man in front of her who was suffering nobody really knows what is going on in his head. Giving the media the finger when he left court certainly did not show me a man who is suffering.

Just not enough info out there for me to really make any decision on him really, other than what has been published in MSM from witnesses stating he was showing off and speeding, to him giving the media the finger.

He may well have had some sort of mental episode that caused him to lose all focus on reality IMO and just a general out there thought.
 
nypost.com

Upstate limo operator convicted of manslaughter in crash that killed 20

Nauman Hussain, 33, was found guilty of 20 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 stretch limo crash that killed 20 people. The jury deliberated for just six hours before reaching a verdict on Wednesda…
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Reminds me of the limousine crash in NY that killed 20. The driver was just convicted because the vehicle should not have been driven due to safety reasons. Obviously different reasons for the crashes, but still large losses of life caused by a driver.

Thank you to all the locals for your updates and explanations.
 
sleepinoz said:
As much as I understand your feelings Tootsie, a man that says these things prior to having 10 people die on his bus is not (IMO) worthy of defending.

According to the newspaper, some of the survivors who have spoken to police allege Mr Button addressed his passengers through the vehicle’s internal microphone moments before he lost control and said, “If you think that was fast … watch this.”


Hunter Valley bus driver Brett Button allegedly told his passengers to “fasten your seatbelts” moments before the crash that claimed 10 lives, a court has heard.

www.smh.com.au

As it happened: Driver Brett Button told passengers to ‘fasten your seatbelts’ moments before crash, court hears; NSW Police continue to identify victims

The wedding bus driver who crashed in the Hunter Valley, killing 10 passengers and injuring dozens more, faced court this morning after being charged with a string of serious offences.
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The speed was intended, he was showing off. IMO
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I have to agree sleep.

Far too many reports from witnesses on the bus about his driving before the accident. I am unable to locate it now but wasn't it also reported that several onboard asked him to slow down?
 
drsleuth said:
Yes I think so , injuries incompatible with life :(
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I honestly cant bear the thought of what the bride and groom are going through from this. I just cant. I know that the family and friends of the deceased would be hurting but the bride and groom, spending the happiest day of their lives with them, organizing a bus to get them safely to accommodation or back home and then BOOM. That one call changed everything. The grief that they both must be experiencing, I just cannot imagine. This is just so much to take on for this young couple. So much loss.
 
mussopossum said:
I honestly cant bear the thought of what the bride and groom are going through from this. I just cant. I know that the family and friends of the deceased would be hurting but the bride and groom, spending the happiest day of their lives with them, organizing a bus to get them safely to accommodation or back home and then BOOM. That one call changed everything. The grief that they both must be experiencing, I just cannot imagine. This is just so much to take on for this young couple. So much loss.
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I know it's cold comfort, but I'm just grateful the bus wasn't at maximum capacity. I know that emergency services and medical services did an absolutely bang-up job, wouldn't surprise me if in the future there are commendations awarded, but that bus could have held over fifty people. If they'd filled it past capacity - which happens, I recall 'school-run' buses in my youth where there were kids literally standing in the stairwells against the doors like sardines - we could be looking at dozens more killed. It could have been the whole wedding party on board, the happy couple, grandparents, kids...

I'm looking at the horror of it all and all I can think is, thank goodness it wasn't worse. Some of the other old cases being mentioned in the articles, the death tolls were so much higher. That wedding yesterday in Nigeria, on a boat... there are over a hundred dead and unaccounted for.

I'm horrified at the ten deaths, the serious injuries in the survivors, but I guess I'm just relieved that so many did survive this. That those who did survive get a chance to go on, to exist beyond this tragedy.

MOO
 
mussopossum said:
Other than the Judge making a comment about him "suffering" and that she could see a man in front of her who was suffering nobody really knows what is going on in his head. Giving the media the finger when he left court certainly did not show me a man who is suffering.

Just not enough info out there for me to really make any decision on him really, other than what has been published in MSM from witnesses stating he was showing off and speeding, to him giving the media the finger.

He may well have had some sort of mental episode that caused him to lose all focus on reality IMO and just a general out there thought.
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I won't speculate, because there's nothing out there that I know of about mental health concerns, but I admit that certain things do make me wonder. I expect if it is a factor, it will be made known at trial, if not before then.

MOO
 
iamshadow21 said:
I won't speculate, because there's nothing out there that I know of about mental health concerns, but I admit that certain things do make me wonder. I expect if it is a factor, it will be made known at trial, if not before then.

MOO
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Absolutely and my comment was based on if someone had a mental episode, such things as Bi polar and schizophrenia. There is nothing out there to suggest mental health issues in this case. I just cannot wrap my head around a rofessional driver in his right mind acting this way, driving a bus full of people in heavy fog
 
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