RELATED CONTENT: Driver dead as 28 injured after a bus crash in Kangaroo Valley
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A mechanic and a bus company manager have been charged with manslaughter seven years after a fatal bus crash at Barrengarry.
Police charged the two men following a long investigation, which included mechanical examination of the bus, into the crash which killed 58-year-old bus driver Graham Lees from Bringelly.
Shortly before 7.30pm on May 14, 2010, Mr Lees was driving a 16-tonne coach south along Nowra Road at Barrengarry, when it left the roadway, crashed through the guard rail and slid 40 metres down a hillside.
Mr Lees was killed when he was thrown from the bus, while several of the 28 passengers on board were injured, one seriously.
The passengers were volunteer carers for the sick and disabled attached to the Polish Australian Welfare Association at Ashfield on their way to a weekend educational retreat in Kangaroo Valley.
The most critically injured was a 70-year-old male with head, neck, chest, arm, abdominal and pelvic injuries.
A 31-year-old male bus company manager from St Clair was charged on February 28, 2017, with manslaughter, recklessly causing grievously bodily harm, two counts of acting with the intent of perverting the course of justice, hindering a police investigation and publishing false material to obtain property.
He was granted conditional bail to appear in Moss Vale Local Court on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.
A 27-year-old male mechanic from Picton was charged on January 12, 2017, with manslaughter, recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, acting with intent to pervert the course of justice, hindering a police investigation, concealing a serious indictable offence, grievous bodily harm by negligent act, and publishing false material to obtain property.
He is due to appear at Moss Vale Local Court on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.