Brett Button: Hunter Valley bus driver faces 26 new charges after catastrophic crash that killed 10 wedding guests
The driver of a bus that killed ten people has been charged with a further 26 offences, including ten counts of manslaughter.
Brett Button, 59, was arrested in the Hunter Valley following the crash that seriously injured 21 of 35 passengers and killed another 10 on June 11 last year.
Those on board the Linq Buslines coach were returning to Singleton at 11.30pm following the wedding of Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell at the Wandin Valley Estate in Lovedale.
Just 8km into the journey, the bus rolled into a roundabout near the Hunter Expressway exit at Greta.
Button was on bail awaiting court appearance 63 costs, inclusive 10 counts of dangerous driving causing death and one count of negligent driving causing death.
Hunter Valley bus driver Brett Button (above) has been charged with a further 26 offences, including manslaughter, for the crash that killed ten wedding guests last June
The passengers on board were returning to Singleton from a wedding in Lovedale when the bus drove (pictured)
But on Monday, with another 26 alleged offences, he now faces a total of 89 charges.
The charges include 10 counts of manslaughter and 16 counts of angry driving causing bodily harm.
Each manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years behind bars.
Kane Symons, Angus Craig, Rebecca Mullen, Darcy Bulman, Nadene and Kyah McBride, Andrew and Lynan Scott, Tori Cowburn and Zachary Bray all died in the horror crash.
The bride and groom, Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell, postponed their honeymoon for several months after the crash.
Instead, they spent the months after campaigning for seat belts to be mandatory on buses in New South Wales.
Button is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
The couple who got married on the day of the crash, Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell (above), postponed their honeymoon for several months to campaign for seat belts on buses