Bus tragedy probe team meets as two victims buried
Three others injured in the crash were also readmitted to hospital.
British, German and Belgian experts met in Dublin to begin examining the cause of the fatal accident involving two double-decker buses. Arnold O'Byrne, a Dublin Bus board member, is chairing the inquiry.
Five people were killed when a bus ploughed into them at a bus stop at Wellington Quay in the city centre last Saturday.
The investigation team has already interviewed the two bus drivers involved in the accident and is expected to issue its preliminary findings within six weeks.
The first phase of the inquiry, which is running separately to a garda investigation, will be conducted in private but CIÉ, the parent company of Dublin Bus, has not ruled out a public inquiry.
The investigating committee consists of eight other members including three Dublin Bus officials and four international experts.
Dr Alan Westwell, managing director of Dublin Bus, the company's chief engineer Shane Doyle, operations manager Mick Matthews and risk manager Joe Hogan complete the home-grown members.
The international experts include Dr Richard Lambourn, lead investigator with Britain's Transport Research Laboratory; Simon Brown, former group engineer with London Buses Ltd; Wolfgang Arnold, engineering and infrastructure director with the Stuttgart Transport Authority in Germany; and Hugo van Wesemael, former director general of Lijn Transport, Flanders, Belgium.
Hundreds attended a requiem Mass at Our Lady Immaculate Church for Margaret Traynor, aged 59, from Tulip Court, Darndale in Dublin, who was buried in Leixlip yesterday.
Mourners also flocked to Ballymun where Teresa Keatley, a 43-year-old mother-of-three from Sillogue Avenue, was buried following a funeral Mass at Our Lady of Victories Church, Ballymun Road.
Kathleen Gelton, aged 69 and a mother of four, will be the last victim to be buried when she is laid to rest tomorrow.
Earlier yesterday, three of those injured in the crash were re-admitted to St James's Hospital. A hospital spokesperson said the victims, all female, were in a stable condition and were not critical.
