The driver and the company’s four directors, brothers Kim Degabriele, 40, Philip Degabriele, 32, Noel Degabriele, 24, all from Luqa, and their sister Lee Anne Borg, 37, from Mellieħa, will be charged with the involuntary homicide of the two tourists and causing injuries to 21 other passengers.
They will also be accused of damaging the open-top bus.
The double decker after the accident.
D’Amato also will be charged with dangerous and negligent driving, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and with failing to safeguard his own health and safety.
The directors will be charged with failing to ensure the health and safety of the passengers on the bus, failing to provide proper training to prevent workplace incidents and with failing to inform JobsPlus about the driver’s employment.
A number of criminal charges against the driver and four directors of a sightseeing bus tour operator charged over a fatal double-decker bus incident almost thr
A SOMERSET man who was left paralysed after a bus crash in 2018 is still questioning how and why it happened. Rob Butt, 47, of Barton St David, near Somerton, sustained a severe spinal cord injury when a city sightseeing open-top bus in Zurrieq, Malta, crashed into low-lying tree branches in April 2018. His wife, Kathy, and three children were also on the bus. Mr Butt, who the head of history at Downside School in Radstock, is now tetraplegic and wheelchair-dependent. The pair had secured teaching jobs in Malaysia before the crash and were looking forward to starting a new life there. “Both Rob and I had recently secured teaching jobs in Malaysia and we were looking forward to a new adventure overseas together as a family,” said Mrs Butt, a teacher at Millfield School in Street.