14 Oct 2021

Coroner's report into deadly Turoa bus crash released

From Morning Report, 7:36 am on 14 October 2021

Skiers were unknowingly a "knife edge" away from catastrophe on bus trips down Mt Ruapehu, but the risk was only revealed after a crash that killed 11-year-old Hannah Francis.

The details are in a just released coroner's report that says poor driving by an experienced bus driver was the primary cause of the crash in July 2018.

Phil Pennington has been reading the report.