Investigations are continuing into the cause of a crash which killed two schoolchildren and a pensioner.
Kieran Goulding, 15, and Chloe Walker, who was celebrating her 16th birthday, died when the bus taking them home from school hit a car on the A66 near Keswick, Cumbria.
Both youngsters were studying at Keswick School in the Lake District and were on their way home on a 49-seater coach on Monday afternoon.
The smash also claimed the life of Patrick Short, 68, from Braithwaite, who was behind the wheel of the only other vehicle involved.
Chloe was described as a "delightful" youngster whose tragic death came just three years after her brother Jordan died from the degenerative condition sanfilippo which he had battled since he was seven. Chloe should have been sitting her GCSE exams this week and planned to go on to study A-levels at the school's sixth form.
The coach they were on and the Honda Civic car driven by parish councillor Mr Short were travelling in opposite directions on a straight stretch of the A66.
Police said the "early indication" was the car had crossed the centre line of the road when it hit the coach which then flipped over. It is not yet known what may have caused 68-year-old Mr Short - children's services manager at Barnardo's Allerdale Children's Centre in Maryport - ( just how ironic could this be?) to cross to the wrong side of the road.
I don't mind admitting that this all did bring tears to my eyes.
I feel so desperately helpless for the parents and cannot even begin to imagine just how devastated they must be.
One of the worst cases of family tradgedy I've heard about for many years.
