SURVIVORS of a bus crash that killed a schoolgirl were mistakenly told everyone involved in the accident had been accounted for, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.
SURVIVORS of a bus crash that killed a schoolgirl were mistakenly told everyone involved in the accident had been accounted for, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.
VICTIM: 17-year-old schoolgirl Natasha Paton was killed in the accident in March 2010.
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Stuart MacDonald
Ross Allan, 29, a chemistry teacher who was on the bus, told how an official from the fire brigade had informed him no-one was missing in the wake of the incident.
Mr Allan was giving evidence at Lanark Sheriff Court into the death of 17-year-old Natasha Paton. Natasha, from Cleghorn village near Lanark, died after the bus collided with a bridge on the A73 near Biggar and tumbled down an embankment.
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