He is due to return for a committal mention on 18 October. His application for bail was granted, with magistrate Andrew McKenna noting he had no criminal history and had cooperated with police. The charges against Gleeson specifically relate to four children – two each aged nine and 10. Two children required amputations of their hands and arms, he said.Īnother 30 children were described by police as “walking wounded”. Kerlin said that, as a result of the collision, nine of the 46 children onboard became trapped on the bus, eight of whom sustained serious injuries. Gleeson said he hit the brakes after seeing saw the bus slow down in front of him, but he didn’t have enough time to stop before colliding with it.
“Whether that played a part … I couldn’t tell you,” he said during his police interview on Wednesday morning, Kerlin told the court. The court heard that Gleeson said he’d encountered the sun flicker while driving down the route before, which could “change distance and depth perception”. He said he would normally “take it easy” in school zones and was accelerating out of the 60km/h zone outside Exford primary school when he noticed “a sun flicker in the trees”, Kerlin told the court. Kerlin told the court that Gleeson had said to police that he was on his way home from work at the time of the accident, following his “usual route”. Prosecutor Ben Kerlin said the bus driver, who was conducting a right-hand turn from Exford Road onto Murphys Road, had seen the truck approaching from behind and tried to accelerate to get out of its path but failed. The court heard Gleeson, a truck driver for 18 years, had no drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash, which occurred at the intersection of Exford Road and Murphys Road in Eynesbury about 3.55pm on Tuesday.
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