Bus crash inquests adjourned ahead of criminal case
Inquests into the deaths of five victims of the Dublin Bus crash were adjourned for the third time today to allow criminal proceedings to conclude.
Three family members of one of the deceased, Teresa Keatly, a 43-year-old mother-of-three, listened quietly as the case was again adjourned.
The families of the other four victims were not present for the hearing in the Dublin City Coroners Court.
Inspector Dan Quill of Pearse Street Garda Station asked that the inquests be adjourned under Section 25 (2) of the Coroners Act, 1962, until the criminal proceedings had finished.
Dr Brian Farrell, Dublin City Coroner, said: “We’ll then contact the family after the trial and reopen the inquest at an appropriate date.”
The fatal accident happened on February 21 last when an out-of-service bus passed a stationary Maynooth-bound bus at Wellington Quay on the inside.
It mounted a kerb onto the footpath and collided with passengers queuing to board the Maynooth bus.
The crash claimed the lives of Kathleen Gilton, a 69-year-old mother-of-four from Maynooth and Margaret Traynor, a 59-year-old mother-of-four, from Dublin’s Darndale area.
A Ukrainian national Vasul Tyminskyy, 33, a father-of-one, and Kevin Garry, a 43-year-old single man from Leixlip also died after the incident.
Earlier this year the court heard that the three women and two men died from crush-related injuries.
A bus driver has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of the five people.
