Australian bus driver released on bail after being charged over 10 passengers' deaths
Police allege a bus driver was driving too fast when the vehicle rolled on its side in heavy fog, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others in an Australian wine region CESSNOCK, Australia -- A bus driver was driving too fast when the vehicle rolled on its side and hit a guard rail in heavy fog in an Australian wine region, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others, police alleged Tuesday. Brett Andrew Button, 58, was driving 35 passengers on a 20-minute journey from a wedding reception at the Wandin Estate Winery to the town of Singleton, both in the Hunter Valley wine region of New South Wales state, when the 2009 Volvo bus rolled at a roundabout late Sunday. Button had been in police custody but was released on bail when he appeared in the Cessnock Local Court on Tuesday charged with 10 counts of dangerous driving in relation to each death and one count of negligent driving. Earlier, acting Police Assistant Commissioner David Waddell alleged that Button “entered tha...