Tester claims lights were working on Meath crash bus

A DOE tester has told a jury that the ABS warning light was working on a bus two months before it was involved in a fatal collision in which five Meath schoolgirls were killed.

Wesley Finlay from McArdles Test Centre Ltd in Dundalk, the company on trial arising out of the accident, said that if the light had not come on in the dashboard on the Bus Eireann vehicle he would have failed it during a DOE test on March 4, 2005 and not passed it as being road worthy on March 15, 2005.