SAFETY * Ireland - Minister shocked by children not wearing seat belts

Junior Minister for Education Sean Haughey today branded as shocking that three-quarters of post-primary pupils are not wearing seatbelts on school buses

Cork,Ireland -The Evening Echo -22 Aug 2007: -- Speaking as the new school year draws closer, he said the message must get through to children to “belt up safely”... He referred to a survey carried out by Bus Eireann earlier in the year which revealed the majority of pupils were not complying with the new law, introduced following the Navan school bus crash in 2005 which claimed the lives of five teenage girls.