The case against a truck driver accused of causing the horror Eynesbury school bus crash has been delayed as police wait for medical reports.
Jamie Gleeson, 49, was arrested and charged with four counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury after a bus carrying 45 schoolchildren rolled in Melbourne’s west on May 17.
Police allege he struck the bus from behind while driving his usual route home.
Brett Barratt, Mr Gleeson’s lawyer, appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, saying he would not oppose an application by prosecutors to delay the case by two months.
Despite the horror crash occurring more than five months ago, a prosecutor said investigators were still waiting on medical records to determine whether more charges would be laid against Mr Gleeson.
“We have received some (medical reports), but we’re waiting on others relating to the 15 complainants,” she said.
At Mr Gleeson’s first court appearance, police alleged eight “school-age children” from Exford Primary School suffered life-threatening injuries and two had since had hands and arms amputated.
Thirty other passengers on the bus were described as “walking wounded”.
A police summary of the allegations alleged Mr Gleeson, from Melbourne’s outer west, had just finished work driving clay from Bulla to Kensington.
“Next thing I know the bus in front slowed,” he allegedly told police.
“I tried to take evasive action but I couldn’t.”
Mr Gleeson allegedly recounted seeing “sun flickers” through the trees prior to the crash and stopped to help pull children from the wreckage.
The court was told about 40m of pre-impact breaking marks were located by investigators and there was no allegation Mr Gleeson was affected by drugs or alcohol.
The application to adjourn the case was granted by magistrate Kieran Gilligan, and it will return to court in December.