<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A 58-year-old wedding bus driver is scheduled to appear in an Australian court Tuesday, charged with dangerous driving that caused the deaths of 10 guests.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Acting assistant police commissioner David Waddell said prosecutors will allege the man was driving "too quick" in what were believed to be foggy conditions just before midnight Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bus carrying 35 passengers lost control on a roundabout and careened onto its side, killing nine people almost instantly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moments earlier, they had been celebrating the wedding of a young couple at the nearby Wandin Estate Winery in Australia's picturesque Hunter Valley wine region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another passenger later died in hospital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fourteen guests are still hospitalised, including two in intensive care.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The victims are aged between 20 and 60 years and suffered injuries ranging from lacerations to breaks and fractures.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police say they are still piecing together their investigation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But they have already charged the man, who is due to appear in Cessnock court after being denied bail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police have said that initial alcohol testing came back negative, but officers pointed blame at "erratic" speeding that some passengers had reportedly complained about before the crash.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We've obviously now charged that 58-year-old bus driver, we've charged him with 11 charges," said Waddell.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"He entered that roundabout in a manner that was inconsistent with the conditions," he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Obviously, the speed was too quick for him to negotiate that roundabout, causing the vehicle to fall on its left side, and causing those injuries."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The road crash was Australia's worst in 16 years and has caused widespread shock, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leading condolences to the victims.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"For a joyous day like that in a beautiful place to end with such terrible loss of life and injury is so cruel and so sad and so unfair," he said. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd24/kh</div>