ABS system faulty in almost half of buses after accident

The ABS system was not working in eight out of 18 vehicles tested by Bus Éireann four days after a crash in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.

Bus Éireann provided documents to gardaí showing that tests carried out on the vehicles on May 27, 2005 also concluded that seven of the buses had the bulb removed from a warming lamp on their dashboards.