Truck driver charged over school bus crash

The force of the collision sent the bus plummeting down an embankment off the Western Highway at Pentland Hills.

There were 27 students and five adults aboard the bus, which was meant to travel to Melbourne airport.

A Croydon man, 60, has been charged with 46 offences, including reckless conduct causing serious injury, and reckless conduct endangering life.

He was due to face the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon.