The driver of a Chinese tour bus which crashed near Rotorua just over a year ago has been sentenced to four and a half months' home detention
The driver of a Chinese tour bus which crashed near Rotorua just over a year ago has been sentenced to four and a half months' home detention
23 September 2020
Five people were killed in the crash.
Junwei Zhang, has also been disqualified from driving for 18 months, and ordered to pay 13-thousand dollars reparation to the victims, and their families.
He'd previously pleaded guilty to charges of careless use of a motor vehicle causing death - and eight charges of careless use of a motor vehicle - causing injury.
The bus was carrying 27 people when it rolled on State Highway Five at Ngatira.
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