'If Zachy had survived, he'd be doing what I'm doing': a year of bus safety progress

Zach Bray with his dad Adam Bray, both enjoyed flying together. Picture supplied

IN THOSE first few devastating days after Zach Bray and nine of his friends died in the Hunter Valley bus crash, his father became furious that an outdated safety system had "failed" his boy.

"We don't want anyone else to be standing in our shoes - it's as simple as that," Adam Bray told the Newcastle Herald.