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VC105 will be back on the road, not for quite a while but i'v been told by alot of CIE officials that she will be back. Surprsingly not one single pane of glass was broken on the bus execpt for the windscreen. It was an absolute miracle that there were no serious injuries or fatalities on the bus. All she needs is a new windscreen and a bit of work done around the bottom-front of the bus and around the front-right wheel, unless God forbid that the chassis is bent on her. Many people say that it was a schoolbus that crashed, it was NOT a schoolbus, it was a service bus, timetabled Mon-Sat, it was a service bus, Route 480, 15.35 Derry-Donegal Town via Carrigans, St.Johnston, Raphoe,Convoy & Ballybofey. It was carrying secondary-school children from The Royal & Prior school in Raphoe to Stranorlar/Ballybofey, and dropping off the children at their houses along the way. There was a total of 24 secondary school children and 6 other regular passengers on the bus at the time of the accident. A car suddenly overtook another car or cars at the last minute and slammed head-on into the bus, (on the bus's side of the road) pushing the bus into oncoming traffic, (its a very narrow bendy road, just about a mile or two outside Ballybofey on Letterkenny side, near Kilross Cross),as when the car hit the bus the steering box and also the tyre/wheel (front right side, under bus driver), were BLOWN OUT of the bus, therefore the driver had no control of the bus obviously, the bus just kept skidding toward the other side of the road. It stopped for a split second on the ditch on the opposite side of the road, then toppled over onto its right-hand side into a field. As i said, it is nothing but a miracle that the passengers and driver of the bus are stil alive.The driver of the car died, R.I.P. I was on the bus at the time this accident happened incase u hadn't figured out by now. Mon.26th-MAY-2008. 16.30-16.35hrs.