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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2023
TRAGEDY: 10 DIE ■ At least 10 people have died in a tragic bus accident after the wedding of former Warrandyte couple Mitchell and Madeleine Gaffney. Warrandyte sporting club members were guests at the wedding held at Wandin Estate at Lovedale, north of Newcastle in New South Wales. A bus with 35 guests, returning to nearby Singleton, rolled over at a highway roundabout. The bus driver, Brett Andrew Button, 58, faces 10 charges of dangerous driving occasioning death. The newly married couple
● Mitchell and Madeleine Gaffney are well known in Warrandyte, with Mitchell having attended
Warrandyte High School, and being a past player of the Warrandyte football and netball clubs. The former Maddy Edsell was a Warrandyte past netball player. Amongst the 10 people ‘unaccounted for’ in the bus crash is Melbourne man, Darcy Bulman. Some 25 people were pulled alive from the bus. Their injuries varied from critical head and neck trauma to broken bones. The bride and groom’s families travelled from Melbourne for the wedding.
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