A gravel truck driver who was charged with careless driving and speeding too fast for road conditions after he crashed into a school bus has been found guilty on both counts.

28-year-old Peter Oliver Jorgensen was handed a $2,000 fine in a Rimbey, Alta. courtroom Wednesday. The man will not have a criminal record and will be able to keep his driver's licence.

Last year, 17-year-old Jennifer Noble was killed when Jorgensen's truck slammed into the back of the school bus she was riding in. She was sitting in the back right hand side.

Jorgensen testified in court earlier Wednesday that he was driving 105 kilometres per hour along the highway. He said there was thick patches of fog throughout the drive that morning and at one point, had to slow down to 75 kilometres an hour because the fog limited his visibility.

Investigators said the bus was stopped on Highway 53 to pick up children in foggy conditions near a railway crossing at the time.

In an agreed statement of facts entered Monday in court, Jorgensen was found to have first struck a Ford Explorer on the morning of April 9th, 2008. His truck then veered into a school bus.

In a videotaped interview a day after the crash Jorgensen waived his right to a lawyer and told police the fog was a factor.

16-year-old Jalaine Anderson took the stand Monday. She was one of three sisters getting on the bus when the truck hit.

"I just remember it being very scary. I got onto the bus and I was headed toward the back seats to sit with my friend and the next thing I know I'm in the ditch," she said.

School bus driver Ron Adams also took the stand Monday describing the foggy conditions. He said it was foggy but you could see quite a distance. He told the court he stopped on the highway to pick up the Anderson girls despite the family's request to pull over into the yard. Adams said this was something he did on afternoon drop-offs and not during the morning because the school division hadn't approved of it.

The Anderson family told CTV that the Wolf Creek School Division now picks them up for school in their yard.

Adams has also been charged in the case and will stand trial in October.