A man was charged with dangerous driving on Monday after at least 10 wedding guests died when the bus they were traveling in was Australia’s worst bus accident in 30 years, police said. Twenty-five people were injured in the accident, around 11.30 pm on Sunday, near the town of Greta, about 180 km northwest of Sydney. The bus, carrying 35 passengers, veered off the road and overturned at a roundabout after a wedding in the Hunter region, a rural area famous for its vineyards and wedding venues. Police said the driver, a 58-year-old man, was taken to hospital for mandatory drug testing. Bail was refused and he is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed “deep condolences” to the families of those killed and injured. “We all know the joy of attending a wedding, they are some of the happiest moments you can have. For a joyous day like this, in a beautiful place, to end with such terrible loss of life and injury is very cruel, sad and unfair,” Albanese told reporters. New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said police were treating the case as a single-vehicle accident and the cause may not be known for some time. The two worst bus accidents in the country were head-on collisions two months apart in 1989, which killed 35 and 21 people, both in the state of New South Wales. *Reproduction of this content is prohibited.
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