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Double-decker bus tragedy: driver's breathalyser test was negative

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First responders rush a victim away for treatment at the crash site. Photo: Jonathan Borg

The driver of a double-decker tourist bus that crashed in 2018, killing two and injuring many others, tested negative in a breathalyser test after the incident, a court heard on Friday.  Charles D’Amato, 27, faces charges of involuntary homicide following the deaths of a Spanish woman and Belgian man and injuries suffered by 21 other passengers in the April 2018 crash, when passengers on the bus’ top deck were hit by a tree branch.  Prosecutors have also charged him with dangerous and negligent driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.  An inspector who testified on Friday said that a breathalyser test administered after the incident found no traces of alcohol in D’Amato’s breath.  “Zero,” said inspector Pierguido Saliba, when asked about the result of the test he administered to D’Amato. Although, after a lapse of three years the witness could not “100 per cent” identify the driver in court, Saliba said that he could confirm that the person tested was the licensed driver.   D’Amato is one of five people facing involuntary homicide charges. The others are Degabriele brothers Kim, 40, Philip, 32, Noel, 24 and their sister Lee Ann Borg, 38, as directors of City Sightseeing...


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