Rethink urged on overtaking school buses

THE law in some American states which prohibits any vehicle from passing a school bus when children are stepping on or off should be considered in Ireland, a High Court judge suggested yesterday.

Mr Justice Bryan McMahon was speaking in a case where €200,000 was awarded to a Co Cork schoolboy, Fionnán McSwiney, knocked down after stepping off a bus.

The judge, who has written a book on the law relating to this type of case, approved a settlement to a Crookstown, Co Cork, boy who was nine when the accident happened five years ago.