Queensland truck driver who caused death of bus driver reduces jail time on appeal

A 68-year-old truck driver whose vehicle collided with a bus on a sweeping bend south of Brisbane killing the driver will walk free after a successful appeal against his sentence.

Ronald Trevor Gallaty was handed down a three-year jail sentence last year, but it was to be suspended after he served 12 months.

The Queensland Court of Appeal on Wednesday ordered instead that he receive a three-year prison sentence suspended immediately.

Bus driver Peter Bohlsen died after a tipping trailer…