Adam Bray launches class action over Hunter Valley bus crash
The father of one of the 10 victims of the fatal Hunter Valley bus crash has launched a class action against Transport for NSW over the interchange where the tragedy occurred.
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The father of one of the 10 people who tragically died in the fatal Hunter Valley bus crash has launched a class action against a NSW government body over the intersection where it happened.
Adam Bray’s son Zachary Bray, 29, was one of the wedding guests who did not survive the horrific bus rollover at Greta in June last year.
Darcy Bulman, Rebecca Mullen, Andrew Scott and his wife Lynan Scott, Tori Cowburn, Angus Craig, Nadene McBride, her daughter Kyah McBride and Kyah’s partner Kane Symons were also killed in the tragedy.
Each of the other 25 passengers on board who survived were also injured to varying degrees in the carnage.
Bus driver Brett Button was jailed for at least 24 years by Judge Roy Ellis, with his non-parole period to expire on May 7, 2048. He intends to appeal the sentence.
Mr Bray has now launched civil action in the NSW Supreme Court against Transport for NSW, alleging it breached its “duty of care”.
The class action centres on multiple claims about the interchange where the tragedy unfolded, including that it was incorrectly signposted as a “roundabout”, when it was “elliptically shaped” with different applicable considerations.
Mr Bray also claims the elliptical interchange was not as safe as a circular one, and that it failed to adhere to the Austroads guidelines for rural road design.
It is also claimed other technical features of the interchange — including its shape, associated signposts, the vegetation on the island, and a lack of run-off area or an embankment — fundamentally increased the risk of a serious crash involving a heavy vehicle.
The claim is for people directly injured either physically or psychologically by the incident, and people suffering mental harm, as a result of the crash.
The case will return to the NSW Supreme Court on February 7.
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