Truck Driver on Bail as Schoolkids Await Surgeries

The scene of a collision between a school bus and a truck in Bacchus Marsh, Greater Melbourne, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. AAP Image/Joel Carrett

A truck driver is on bail as several children await surgeries for life-altering injuries sustained in a bus crash in Melbourne’s west.

Police are investigating whether 49-year-old Jamie Gleeson, from Balliang East, was distracted before the truck he was driving collided with a bus carrying 46 children from Exford Primary School at nearby Eynesbury on May 16.