Bus driver who killed two had dementia

A Midland Red bus driver who killed two people when he drove into a supermarket was suffering from dementia and had crashed four times in the previous three years, a court has heard. Kailash Chander, who mistook the accelerator for the brake before the fatal crash in Coventry in October 2015, was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial due to post-traumatic stress disorder and frontal lobe dementia.

The 80-year-old, who was 77 at the time of the crash, was excused from attending a “finding-of-facts” trial after psychiatrists said he would be unable to give evidence or instruct lawyers.