00:00One year on, and forever loved. It was here, in the late evening of June 11, 2023, a bus,
00:10taking friends home from a vineyard wedding, crashed, killing 10 passengers and injuring
00:1525. Rebecca Mullin, Zach Bray, Kaya and Nadine McBride, Kane Simmons, Tori Cowburn, Darcy
00:25Woolman, Angus Craig and Andrew and Linnan Scott lost their lives.
00:31The family, obviously, is all still in pieces over the traumatic events that happened last
00:38year. The wider community is still very much on their minds also.
00:43Many of the victims were part of the Singleton Roosters AFL club. It says they're forever
00:48in our hearts and minds. The pain is still as fresh as the day they departed us.
00:54Many of the emergency workers who responded are also members of the local community.
01:00You really feel that some of the staff aren't travelling so well. And that, you know, really
01:05weighs on me. But, in saying that, we're going to be okay.
01:12The tragedy has ushered in changes for bus safety, led by survivors and those who lost
01:18loved ones. They include fitting more buses with seatbelts, bolstering safety education
01:24and reducing standing on board. Adam Bray lost his son, Zach, in the crash
01:30and led the campaign for change. Coach travel, Australia-wide, is safe so that
01:36everybody who needs to ride on a coach or a bus can arrive to work, arrive to school
01:43and more importantly arrive home. A permanent memorial has been established
01:47to honour the victims. Let's try to, just try to transfer our grief
01:53into happy tears, happy memories. Just them beautiful people that would like to be remembered
01:58that way. And I think that's the greatest thing we can do to respect them and to treasure
02:03them.
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