The West Bromwich driver of a National Express coach which crashed near motorway services last year has admitted dangerous driving and being over the drink drive limit when the vehicle overturned.
Leslie Darryl Weinberg, 35, from Meyrick Road, pleaded guilty to charges of driving while under the influence of excess alcohol and dangerous driving at a short hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court.
After he entered his pleas the case was put off for sentence to a date to be set.
Eight people needed hospital treatment when the coach overturned at the Newport Pagnell services on the M1 on September 3 last year. Six people were seriously hurt and Weinberg had to be cut free from the wreckage.
The coach was travelling from Digbeth Coach Station in Birmingham to Stansted airport and carrying 77 passengers. It was leaving the services on a slip road when Weinberg lost control.
Passengers spoke of the vehicle weaving and swerving around just before the accident.
Service station staff saw the coach turn over and immediately called the emergency services at just after 4pm
Kirsty Plummer, from Luton, told reporters at the time: "I knew something was going to happen, the driver was swerving so I put my seat belt on."
She said other passengers who did not fasten their seat belts fell on top of her as the coach overturned and were more seriously injured.
In January 2007, three people died following a crash in which a National Express coach overturned on a motorway slip road. The vehicle was travelling from Heathrow airport bound for Glasgow when the accident happened on the junction between the M4 and the M25.
Christina Toner, 76, from Dundee and a man of Chinese origin died in the accident. John Carruthers, 78, of Chertsey, Surrey died six months later as a result of the injuries he sustained. Others had limbs torn off.
Philip Rooney, 48 and from Lanarkshire, is due to stand trial on three charges of dangerous driving in October this year
