The driver of a bus that crashed near Harden two years ago has pleaded guilty to negligent driving. Militoni Veraqali Leweniqila faced multiple charges, including negligent driving, after emergency services were called to a single-vehicle crash on the Burley Griffin Way on September 27, 2019. The bus had 28 people on board, including the driver, and paramedics took 25 passengers to the Harden hospital as a precaution. Two others were flown to Canberra Hospital. Leweniqila appeared at Young Local Court on Monday and entered pleas of guilty to two counts of negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and two counts of cause bodily harm by misconduct. The matter is listed for sentence at Griffith Local Court in January.
CRASH SCENE: Two were flown to hospital after a bus with 30 people onboard crashed on the Burley Griffin Way near Harden in September 2019. Picture: NSW Ambulance
The driver of a bus that crashed near Harden two years ago has pleaded guilty to negligent driving.
Militoni Veraqali Leweniqila faced multiple charges, including negligent driving, after emergency services were called to a single-vehicle crash on the Burley Griffin Way on September 27, 2019.
The bus had 28 people on board, including the driver, and paramedics took 25 passengers to the Harden hospital as a precaution. Two others were flown to Canberra Hospital.
Leweniqila appeared at Young Local Court on Monday and entered pleas of guilty to two counts of negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and two counts of cause bodily harm by misconduct.
The matter is listed for sentence at Griffith Local Court in January.
