School bus crash - Transport policy must be examined

Tragic though it was, with the death of a 15-year-old boy, it was exceptionally fortuitous that there were no more fatalities in yesterday’s horrendous school bus accident.

There could have been substantially more, as 30 other people were injured in this single-vehicle accident on a bog road between Rahan and Clara in Co Offaly.

This was the national realisation - that the possible consequences of this desperate accident could have been considerably worse.