Christine Helen Chatterton found guilty of causing death by negligent driving

A Tasmanian bus driver has been found guilty of causing the multi-vehicle crash which claimed the life of a man and his two-year-old daughter.

A Tasmanian bus driver has been found guilty of causing a multi-vehicle crash which claimed the life of a man and his two-year-old baby daughter.

Blackmans Bay woman Christine Helen Chatterton, 69, had pleaded not guilty to the two counts of causing death by negligent driving.

Chatterton was at the wheel of a white 1998 Hino passenger bus when it collided with a sedan and two other cars on Algona Rd, Huntingfield in August 2020.

The 42-year-old male victim was at the wheel of the sedan, with his two-year-old daughter also dying in the collision.

The prosecution had argued Chatterton’s excessive and sudden use of her brakes caused the multi-vehicle accident.

Chatterton’s defence lawyers, meanwhile, submitted their client had been placed in an unusual situation by her employer, wherein she was picking up a shift for someone else, thereby driving a bus and a route she was unfamiliar with.

Chatterton will be sentenced on July 26.

The Mercury has chosen not to publish the names of the deceased.