A BRAKE-SYSTEMS expert told the Navan schoolbus trial the vehicle crashed because the ABS wasn’t working and that the driver had lost control when the wheels locked. Rod McLellan, a chartered engineer and independent technical consultant with specialist knowledge of brakes used by heavy good vehicles, inspected the Bus Eireann vehicle after it had collided with two cars four miles outside Navan in May 2005. Mr McLellan also told the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal … Continue reading Driver lost control of death bus because brakes failed, court told