Schoolgirls killed in bus crash not wearing seatbelts

THE five schoolgirls killed when the Bus Éireann school bus bringing them home went out of control and overturned were not wearing seatbelts.

It emerged in the evidence yesterday that it appeared the bus had been fitted with seatbelts but nearly all had been removed at some stage.

The postmortems on the girls found their injuries were consistent with being in “a roll-over transportation incident where the passengers are unrestrained”.