A Sydney bus driver has been jailed for at least two years for distracted driving that led to two men's deaths.
Luis Rojas, 50, was only three-and-a-half minutes into his shift when he slammed into a stationary scooter ridden by Chen Guan Wei and Su-Po Hsu in Kingsgrove in January 2019.
Mr Wei, 32, ended up folded under the tyre of a car while his passenger, Su-Po Hsu, 44, was found lying about 50 metres away.
The scooter had been stopped with its indicator and brake lights on, and with both men in high visibility jackets, as Rojas attempted to veer left before "it was too late," he told police soon after.
But CCTV from inside the bus told another story.
In the minutes after leaving the depot, the State Transit driver tried repeatedly to put his seatbelt on, checked his mobile phone three times, donned reading glasses to inspect a piece of paper, pushed buttons on the ticket machine and plugged a cord into the vehicle's sound system.
A District Court jury found him guilty of two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death after the Crown argued he was "an accident waiting to happen".
Rojas's lawyer had described issues with the bus mirrors having to be readjusted after going over bumps on the road, the inclination of the street and blinding headlights from oncoming cars among conditions that affected Rojas' ability to identify hazards
Judge Siobhan Herbert on Monday ordered Rojas spend at least two years in prison.
With about two months served after his arrest, the full term will end in January 2023.
Convictions were also recorded for the illegal mobile phone use and Rojas not wearing a seat belt.
