A TRUCK driver last week pleaded guilty to five charges over a fatal Dandenong South train crash.
Melville Bollen, 72, from Narre Warren North, was due to answer 44 charges in a Supreme Court trial over the November 2012 collision at Abbotts Road.
But at a preliminary hearing last Thursday he pleaded guilty to one count of culpable driving and four of negligently causing serious injury.
In March Melbourne Magistrates’ Court heard that Mr Bollen drove a prime mover with trailer through lowered boom gates as he travelled west on Abbotts Road, and collided with a train shortly after 11.40am on Saturday 3 November.
The train derailed, injuring 14 people and killing Cranbourne West passenger David Cron, 43.
Mr Bollen will face a pre-sentence hearing this week.
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