THE driver of the tour bus that crashed on the Long Tom Pass near Lydenburg in Mpumalanga in September 1999, will be sentenced in the town’s Regional Court on Monday. Seven British tourists and their South African tour guide were killed in the accident. One of the survivors of the accident, Carol Sandauer, is still in a coma in Britain. Dube pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide in February during a meeting between his legal representative and the state prosecutor. The Afrikaans newspaper, Beeld, reported on Monday that Dube had acknowledged during the meeting that he might have hit the accelerator instead of the brake, causing the bus to veer out of control.
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