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A 15-year-old boy has been killed and dozens more students injured in a road crash involving a school bus in Co Offaly.

The accident happened between Rahan and Clara shortly after 8am this morning when the bus overturned on the road.

According to the Health Service Executive, up to ten of the most seriously injured teenagers are being treated at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0404/rta1.html

 Whats really scary about that RTE link is the end bit before .html

Reading the link its RTE   News this year, this month, this day Road Traffic Accident 1 for today!!!!

Damien Mulley is wondering “ how many hours it will be before the Government mentions how much cash they’ve spent on school buses. That’s the default defense these days.”

Sicilian Notes is asking what new ideas are there to prevent deaths. I’d argue we don’t need new ideas, we need enforcement. Currently trucks and artics are whizzing through Clonard Village in blatant disregard of speed limits. As I argued here, this alone negates the increased safety to pedestrians through reduced traffic after the M4 opening.

When was the last time you saw anyone pulled over for bad driving, not signalling, cutting through roundabouts, pulling out onto a main road without a care for oncoming traffic, sitting in the overtaking lane for miles, one working light, applying makeup/shaving , tailgating… the list goes on.

At the moment in Ireland you can drive like a clown all day long and as long as you don’t exceed the speed limit the odds of being pulled over are slim to none.

And in case you were wondering how many people have died on the roads this year http://www.garda.ie/angarda/statistics98/nroadstats.html