Driver avoids conviction over teenager's fall from overloaded school bus in Cork

The court heard that the incident "has haunted" the bus driver ever since.

John O’Sullivan had only been driving the bus because a second vehicle was needed at the time due to social distancing requirements, and the first bus had failed to start that morning. File picture

The driver of an overloaded school bus, from which a teenage student fell out the back door onto the road, has avoided a conviction after the judge said the incident was “unfortunate” and not truly his fault.

John O’Sullivan of 4 Bayview, Convent Road in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, had only been driving the bus because a second vehicle was needed at the time due to social distancing requirements, and the first bus had failed to start that morning.