A MAN who crashed his car into a bus full of schoolchildren had suffered a heart attack, a coronial inquest has heard.
Nove and Mirjana Paceskoski, aged in their 50s, died when their car hit the bus carrying 37 students on Heathcote Road at Lucas Heights on September 11, 2009.
Pictures: Lucas Heights bus accident
An inquest into their deaths today heard the couple, originally from Macedonia, were driving to an Orthodox church in Wollongong.
Counsel assisting the inquest, Peggy Dwyer, said witnesses saw Mr Paceskoski trying to move his car into the left lane when it veered to the wrong side of the road and hit the bus.
“Nove suffered a major health incident like a heart attack,” Ms Dwyer told Glebe Coroners Court.
Ms Dwyer said witnesses saw him drop over the steering wheel before the collision. At the time of the accident he was on four medications for heart disease.
“There is everything pointing to this being a terrible accident,” Ms Dwyer said.
“There’s nothing to suggest that (the pair) had nothing but love and respect for each other.”
The bus driver Anita Harper suffered a broken wrist but none of the children were seriously hurt.
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