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Tue 11 Nov 2002Owner withdraws school bus service after being suedA bus which served junior infants at a Killarney school was withdrawn yesterday. Its owner was sued successfully for an injury to a child incurred during horseplay on the bus.While it was not compulsory to provide seat belts to restrain children on buses, the judge at the Circuit Court in Killarney on Friday found there was negligence on the part of the bus owner for not securing the four-year-old child with a seat belt.