A bus driver charged after a crash which killed two people near Avoca in October last year will face trial in March. Sebastopol's Lionel Calf sought a sentence indication in the County Court at Melbourne this week but on Thursday, Judge Gerard Mullaly decided to list it for a trial. Calf, 70, was charged after the fatal crash on the Sunraysia Highway near Avoca on October 14. The bus was returning from a bowls tournament in Mildura when the accident occurred, killing Creswick woman Carmel Mitchell, 71, and Beaufort woman Ethel Glenister, 87. In March, Calf pleaded not guilty to two counts of dangerous driving causing death, six counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury and one count of careless driving. He was committed to stand trial in the County Court. The trial has been set down for March 10.
A bus driver charged after a crash which killed two people near Avoca in October last year will face trial in March.
Sebastopol's Lionel Calf sought a sentence indication in the County Court at Melbourne this week but on Thursday, Judge Gerard Mullaly decided to list it for a trial.
Calf, 70, was charged after the fatal crash on the Sunraysia Highway near Avoca on October 14.
The bus was returning from a bowls tournament in Mildura when the accident occurred, killing Creswick woman Carmel Mitchell, 71, and Beaufort woman Ethel Glenister, 87.
In March, Calf pleaded not guilty to two counts of dangerous driving causing death, six counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury and one count of careless driving. He was committed to stand trial in the County Court.
