No criminal prosecution will arise out of the death of a Waterford student who suffered fatal injuries whilst getting off a school bus last year.
13-year-old Aisling Kennedy from Glasha, Ballymacarbry, died at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin on the 12th of July 2022.
The opening of an inquest into the young girl’s death at Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard she never regained consciousness after an accident near her home over three months earlier.
Aisling, a first-year student at Presentation Convent in Clonmel, was seriously injured in a freak accident when she was hit by the side mirror of a passing van as she was dropped off by a school bus in her home village of Ballymacarbry on April 7th last.
It is understood Aisling had leaned out from behind the bus when she was struck in the head by the wing mirror.
She was rushed by ambulance to University Hospital Waterford and subsequently airlifted by helicopter to Temple Street in Dublin.
Post-mortem results showed Aisling had died as a result of a traumatic brain injury arising from the incident three months earlier.
An inspector informed the hearing the DPP had directed there should be no prosecution in relation to the incident.
Aisling’s parents, Thomas and Louise Kennedy, confirmed to the coroner they were not appealing the DPP’s decision.
Officials will liaise with the family to fix a date for the full hearing of the inquest.
Addressing Aisling’s parents, the coroner offered them her sympathy on the tragic loss of a young child, in the prime of her life.
