A Croydon truck driver has been charged after a collision with a school bus in Pentland Hills last year left himself and over 20 high school students in hospital.
The collision occurred on the Western Highway, near the intersection of Condons Lane, causing the bus to roll down an embankment about 3.15am on 21 September.
One teenage girl was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
The male truck driver was also taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The bus contained 27 students, four adults and the bus driver – all were taken to hospital for observation.
Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives charged the 60-year-old Croydon man with 46 offences including reckless conduct causing serious injury, dangerous driving causing serious injury and reckless conduct endangering life.
He appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday 23 January.
