Coach driver weeps as he tells inquiry of fatal crash

A COACH driver broke down as he told a fatal accident inquiry he had no chance to avoid a crash that caused the death of a nurse.

Julia Jarvis, 52, was driving between hospitals when her NHS car veered into the path of the tourist coach carrying 39 passengers to the Highlands.

In the impact the whole front end of the car was destroyed and the entire engine unit was thrown from the Peugeot 5008.

Bus driver George McIntyre, 62, was injured along with nine of the passengers on the National Holidays coach heading for Strathpeffer from Newcastle.

Mr McIntyre wept as he told the inquiry at Perth Sheriff Court: “There was nothing I could do to avoid the vehicle.”

Senior primary care nurse Miss Jarvis, from Crieff, was driving between hospitals prior to ending her shift when the fatal accident happened close to Dowally, Perthshire, in the middle of the afternoon.

Fiscal depute Carol Whyte asked Sheriff Fiona Tait to make a formal finding that the cause of death was multiple injuries caused by blunt force trauma as a result of a road traffic accident.