School bus driver who killed boy, 6, after hitting accelerator instead of brake is jailed for 28 months

A school bus driver who crushed a six-year-old boy to death when his vehicle sped out of control was jailed for 28 months today.

Adrian Shearing pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes on the 67-seat DAF coach as Nicola Connor dropped off her son, Finlay, at school.

They both became trapped between the bus and a Fiat Punto outside the gates of Woodborough School in Pewsey, Wiltshire, when the tragic accident happened.  Read

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