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EXAMPLES OF INCIDENTS RECORDED ON BUSES

* Girl suffered injury to forehead after falling down stairwell in Dungannon in April this year

* Secondary school pupil broke tooth after banging head against luggage rack bar in Belfast bus in 2011 n Boy suffered cut to head after being assaulted with "either a pen or knife" on bus in Falls area of Belfast in 2012

* Girl's face was cut by pupils from boys' school in 2011 while on bus in Short Strand area of Belfast

* Downpatrick pupil kicked by another pupil in 2011

* Girl in Antrim hit in eye in 2011 by a pellet gun n Boy hit head aboard Belfast bus in Short Strand area in 2012 when driver braked sharply

* Boy assaulted when boarding bus in Lisburn in 2011

* Child hit by oncoming bus after running out between two cars in Dungannon area in June this year

* Armagh pupil threw bottle at passenger's head in 2012

* Child ran into bus in Dungannon area in 2012 as it was pulling into school grounds

* Boy in Newcastle area punched another pupil while on bus in 2011

* Child fell and hit head in Short Strand area of Belfast in May this year when bus was turning corner

* Belfast Great Victoria Street passenger fell and hurt ankle when bus braked

* Secondary school children injured after bus braked sharply in Belfast in 2012

* Two boys in Armagh fighting on bus in 2011

* In 2013 secondary school pupils in Belfast became verbally abusive to other passengers on bus

* Boy assaulted by another on bus in Lisburn in 2011

* Secondary school pupils in Newtownabbey throwing items at passengers from upper deck