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EIGHT CHILDREN WERE taken to hospital after a school bus and a van collided in Donegal this morning.
The crash occurred this morning at Carrickmore, between St Johnston and Lifford in Co Donegal at about 8.15am.
There were 20 children on the 53-seater bus at the time. Eight of these were taken to hospital but none of their injuries are thought to have been serious.
The drivers of the van and the bus were also taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Commenting on the incident, garda inspector Michael Harrison said that it could have been much more serious.
“This could have been a more serious collision than what it was but we’ve had a number of children taken to hospital and thankfully none of them were seriously injured,” he told Highland Radio.
There was about 20 children on the bus at the time and eight of these children have been taken to hospital. They were heading to school in Raphoe.
Harrison said that gardaí had made contact with the school and that all parents should be aware if their children were taken to hospital.
“Thankfully there has been nobody seriously injured,” he said.
A garda spokesperson said that there had been a minor crash this morning and that nobody was seriously injured.
Harrison appealed for witnesses of the crash to come forward with information and said that gardaí were investigating the incident.
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Thankfully no one was killed or seriously injured! Thinking back of the 2005 crash in Meath..
Donegal again¡¡¡
@Fank Pulman: what do you mean donegal again? Everytime theres multiple road deaths in anyother county its, soo sad this, rip that, but as soon as its in donegal its do they even know how to drive up there? Same crap everytime with you lot.
@Jonathan Kerr: “with you lot”??
@Dave Murray: most people here making comments on the journal.ie can’t stand donegal.
@Jonathan Kerr: the point been made is that you complained that everyone tars Donegal with this big brush. yet you have tarred all journal commantators with the same brush. Pot kettle black sort of situation
@Michael Hayden: ok im sorry about that.
@Fank Pulman: what do you mean ? Plenty of road deaths this week unfortunately were you on those saying cork or mayo again.
@Jonathan Kerr: for a county of a population no more than 160k…. Donegal has way too many accidents. Standards of driving and or the roads must be sub standard.
Can’t argue with statistics.
@Fabio Dillon: there were 10 fatalities on Donegal roads in ’16. 21 in Dublin. 158k ppl in Donegal and 1.8 million in Dublin.
Donegal roads are a joke.
Make everyone in that county resit their driving test.
@Pat Troy: or ban all vehicles¿!
@Pat Troy: glad no one seriously injured in this incident. Jog on Pat
@Fank Pulman: please explain
@Pat Troy: yes cause its not like theres car crashes in any other county in ireland.
@Pat Troy: Or maybe fix the roads which chuck vehicles off them as soon as a wheel slips off when someone coming the other way refuses to move over.
I live in donegal the roads are the problem not the drivers , the government needs to fix our roads too many Potholes and bad attempts to fix them on the cheap rain washes the temporary fillings out of potholes, i am relived nobody injured badly.
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