THE driver of a tour bus involved in a accident in September 1999 on the Long Tom pass – in which 27 British tourists died – has been was found guilty of manslaughter in the Regional Court after admitting that he might have stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal. Titus Dube and eight tourists survived the crash. The only other South African on the bus, the tour guide, died shortly before becoming a father for the first time. One survivor is still in a coma.
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