15/10/2008

Coach Driver Admits Death By Dangerous Driving

A Scottish coach driver who has been released on bail, admitted to causing death by dangerous driving after a crash near Heathrow Airport which left three passengers dead.

The Old Bailey heard how Philip Rooney, 48, from Lanarkshire, was driving the National Express London to Aberdeen service when it overturned on a slip road of the M4 on January 3 2007.

Christina Toner, 76, from Dundee and Yi Di Lin, 30, a Chinese national, died in the crash while John Carruthers, 78, of Chertsey, Surrey died in hospital six months later.

Mr Justice Gross bailed Rooney until sentencing on 24 November.

(GK/JM)

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