By 1news.co.nz
The small NSW community of Singleton is grieving after it was revealed seven of the 10 wedding guests killed in one of Australia’s worst bus crashes hail from the Hunter Valley town.
Tragedy struck on Sunday as a bus returning guests from a wedding reception at Wandin Estate Winery in Lovedale to Singleton lost control and overturned at about 11.30pm.
Singleton Mayor Sue Moore says her close-knit community is struggling to come to terms with the extent of the loss after enduring previous tragedies during bushfires and floods.
“This is a whole different level, of course, with seven lives lost,” she told ABC TV today.
The small size of the Singleton community meant locals were likely to have a connection to victims, Moore said.
The victims include Singleton mother Nadene McBride and her daughter Kyah McBride, with Nadene’s husband Graham ‘Banger’ McBride being treated in hospital.
