A MAN has been charged with manslaughter over a fatal bus crash at a railway bridge.
The accident, in the Bootham area of York, killed a 49-year-old passenger and injured four others, including the bus driver.
The crash happened as the single-decker bus was taking clubbers home shortly before 2am on Friday and caused the closure of a major rail route.
The vehicle hit the wall of the Churchill Hotel, in Grosvenor Terrace, and the stone parapet of the bridge over the main York to Scarborough railway line.
The First York bus was on its way back from the Ikon and Diva nightclubs, in Clifton Moor, York.
No other vehicles were involved.
A North Yorkshire Police spokesman named the dead man as Mohammed Mahmoud Hussain Eltahtawy.
A 21-year-old man was due to appear before York City magistrates today.
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