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A bus driver has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
Visiting academic and mother-of-one Jessica Jing Ren died 11 days after a First Cymru bus crashed into a railway bridge on Neath Road, Swansea, on 12 December 2019.
Eric Vice, 64, from Dunvant, Swansea appeared before the city s magistrates.
He also faces a charge of causing serious injury to Olympic gold medallist hurdler Kevin Young.
The case was transferred to be heard at Swansea Crown Court on 22 January. Mr Vice was granted unconditional bail.
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Seven other passengers were injured on the X10 service when it hit the low-lying bridge on December 12 last year.
The top deck was crumpled - with a section of the roof being thrown onto the rail line above the bridge.
Vice appeared via videolink at Swansea Magistrates court charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He was bailed to appear at Swansea Crown Court on January 22.
Erc Vice, 64, (pictured left) appeared via videolink at Swansea Magistrates court charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Mother Jessica Jing Ren, 36, (pictured right), who was sitting on the front seat of the top deck was airlifted to hospital but died 11 days later
Bus driver appears in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving
University academic Jessica Ren was killed and seven another passengers badly injured when the bus they were travelling in hit a bridge
13:53, 23 DEC 2020
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Emergency services at the scene of December s Landore bus crash (Image: Robert Melen)
A bus driver has appeared in court charged with causing the death of a passenger by dangerous driving.
Jessica Jing Ren pictured with her husband Wenquang Wang and son Yushu on his birthday (Image: Wang family)
Vice, aged 64, of Y Berllan, Dunvant, Swansea, appeared via videolink at Swansea Magistrates Court from a remote location for a brief hearing on Friday morning.