Coach driver to be charged over rock band's crash

The driver of a coach which plunged 30 feet off a viaduct near Bath is to be charged with a number of offences including dangerous driving and using a vehicle with defective brakes.

Norman Markus, from Germany, was among nine people injured, many seriously, when the bus left the road in August last year.

It was carrying members of an American rock band who were on a European tour.

Richard Payne reports:

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