THE Victorian man allegedly responsible for a motor vehicle accident that left one man dead in October last year is due to face Young Local Court next month.
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The man is charged with four traffic related charges including negligent driving occasioning death.
The accident occurred on the Olympic Highway 10 kilometres north of Young on October 5, 2011.
Fifty-nine-year-old Edward Bruce Jones from Craigieburn in Melbourne has been charged with one count of negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, one count of drive in a dangerous manner occasioning grievous bodily harm, negligent driving occasioning death and drive in a dangerous manner occasion death.
Jones was driving a Mercedes bus carrying three friends travelling north to the V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000 in the early hours of October 5, 2011, when the bus and a Tip Top truck - driven by a 62-year-old Eugowra man - collided.
The accident killed 17-year-old Seymour teenager Michael Gorman and left Jones on life support in Canberra Hospital.
The truck driver sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries to his arms.
The Olympic Highway was closed until around 6pm on the day with traffic being diverted through Grenfell and Boorowa.
A full report based on these findings has been prepared for the coroner with the Jones’ charges to be heard before Young Local Court on June 5.