Two people died after Kailash Chander, who has dementia, ploughed into shop in 2015

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A bus company has been fined £2.3m for significant health and safety failings after a fatigued driver ploughed into a supermarket, killing a passenger and a pedestrian in Coventry.

Midland Red (South) pleaded guilty last year to two offences, contrary to the Health and Safety at Work Act, by allowing Kailash Chander to continue working despite warnings about his driving.

The Stockport-based company, part of the Stagecoach Group, apologised to the families of those killed and injured in the incident on 3 October 2015 before sentencing at Birmingham crown court on Tuesday.

Chander, 80, a former mayor of Leamington Spa, was given a two-year supervision order after he was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial due to dementia.