Teenager has lucky escape as school bus catches fire

A LIMERICK schoolgirl escaped death yesterday when a school bus caught fire.

Teenager has lucky escape as school bus catches fire

Charlene Fitzgerald, aged 17, had just got on the privately owned bus near her home at Old Cork Road, when the fire broke out at the rear of the bus.

She said: “I was the first on the bus and I got a shock when the smoke started coming from the back.”

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