Ellayas Bouras charged with causing death of Nada Stoyanovski

The truck driver accused of dangerous driving that allegedly caused the death of a Bell Park grandmother this month has faced court.

The truck driver accused of dangerous driving causing the death of a Bell Park grandmother this month has faced court.

Ellayas Bouras, 38, fronted the Geelong Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with causing the death of Nada Stoyanovski, 64, on January 10 at Corio.

Mr Bouras was charged by major collision investigation unit detectives with running a red light at the intersection of Bacchus Marsh Rd and the Geelong Ring Rd on-ramp.

Nada Stoyanovski with her four children

The 38-year-old, who appeared by video link did not speak during the brief filing hearing that heard police needed 12 weeks to prepare a brief of evidence before his next court date.

Pictures of the aftermath of the crash taken by the Geelong Advertiser show a truck, with branding from Melbourne-based landscaping supply company Burdett’s, and a badly damaged burgundy sedan on Bacchus Marsh Rd.

Crash

Mr Bouras, of Clyde in Melbourne’s outer southeast, is on bail and is due to face court again on June 10.

Last week Ms Stoyanovski’s daughter told the Geelong Advertiser her mother was on the way to pick up her grandson from work at the time of the collision about 2pm.

Ms Stoyanovski’s granddaughter was in the car at the time of the collision.

The young girl received minor injuries and was last week recovering at home.

Ms Stoyanovski was remembered for the deep love of family, her community efforts within Geelong’s Macedonian community and as “never selfish and always kind.”

Her family said Ms Stoyanovski, part of Geelong’s wave of Macedonian migration in the 1960s, made it her life’s work to pass her culture onto her children and grandchildren.

Each year she would spend weeks preparing Macedonian food and dancers for the multicultural festival, Pako Festa, and its parade down Pakington St, Geelong West.

While across 30 years she took her four children and grandchildren to the Macedonian dancing group in Geelong.

Ms Stoyanovski was farewelled during a funeral on Saturday.

Originally published as Ellayas Bouras charged with causing death of Nada Stoyanovski