More than three years after a truck with faulty brakes ploughed into a school bus in the dark, court delays continue to traumatise the victims.

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"Delays in court proceedings have been exhausting," teacher Rebecca Hudson, who was on the bus when it was hit, told a Melbourne court on Thursday.

"I have gone from crying uncontrollably, to feeling incredibly numb. Each delay sets me back and makes the mental images and the guilt re-emerge."

A schoolgirl said she awoke to "massive shock" and hearing others crying as the Loreto College Ballarat bus was pushed off the road by a prime mover truck, down an incline and rolled over.

She was supposed to

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