Driver pleads guilty to train crash

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 Bollen drove a prime mover with a 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.
Bollen is due to face a pre-sentence hearing this week.