A school bus driver who left a teenage girl seriously injured when he knocked her down while over the drug-drive limit has escaped jail. Trevor Sillett, 59, hit grammar school student Elsie Allen as he attempted to pass another coach that had stopped in front of him.
As Elsie, 15, got off the coach and walked across the road when she was hit by the double decker. She suffered two bleeds on the brain, broken ribs, damage to her lungs, a broken nose and remained unconscious in hospital for several days.
Luckily she made a miraculous recovery but has been left with long-term hearing damage. After the collision in Lytchett Matravers, near Poole, Dorset, Sillett tested positive for THC, the compound in cannabis that makes the user high.
