Caitlin Hogg

Caitlin Hogg was a thirteen year old schoolgirl from Kinawley, a village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. She was the eldest of four children of Bob and Rosemary Hogg, and was a member of the local GAA club, Kinawley Brian Boru's, which later remembered her as <cite index="3-2">a teenage girl fatally struck by a car after getting off a school bus, described by her GAA club as "one of our brightest lights"</cite>. Before her death she was, by all accounts, an ordinary schoolgirl known in her small rural community for her warmth and her closeness to her siblings and friends.

Caitlin died after being struck by a car on 6 December 2022 as she stepped off her school bus on the Moher Road in Kinawley. <cite index="2-5">Police confirmed that Caitlin Hogg, aged 13, had sadly died in hospital following a road traffic collision on the Moher Road in Kinawley on Tuesday, 6th December</cite>. <cite index="6-4">She was airlifted to hospital in Belfast but tragically died two days later</cite>, on 8 December 2022. Police investigating the collision said <cite index="1-5">the driver of the car was spoken to at the scene, on the Moher Road in Kinawley, and inquiries were continuing</cite>, and officers appealed to the public for witnesses or dash cam footage.

Her death devastated Kinawley and the wider Fermanagh community. <cite index="3-4">Her GAA club said it would be providing support to Caitlin's peers, and extended its sympathies to her parents, siblings and wider family circle</cite>, and <cite index="3-5">a special Mass was held in Kinawley to pray for the tragic teenager</cite> in the days before her funeral. Local representatives also responded publicly to the tragedy, with the Fermanagh and South Tyrone assembly member raising concerns with the Education Authority about school transport arrangements in the area.

Caitlin's death did not end her story in the public eye. In the years that followed, her parents turned their grief into a campaign for safer conditions for children getting on and off school buses. <cite index="6-1,6-2">Almost four years after their daughter was killed, Bob and Rosemary Hogg continued their campaign for stronger school bus safety laws, determined to prevent another family suffering the same devastating loss</cite>. <cite index="6-5">The Hogg family later joined forces with the family of eleven year old Caitlin Rose McMullan, who died after being struck by a car as she left her school bus in Castledawson in March 2025</cite>, and together the two families pressed for legislative change. Their efforts contributed to renewed council debate and a government consultation on safer school journeys, and <cite index="7-1">fresh progress was reported towards legislation aimed at improving the safety of children travelling to and from school by bus, a move welcomed by Caitlin's family</cite>.

Nearly four years after the collision that killed her, an inquest into Caitlin's death has been taking evidence, and reports say that at a recent hearing her mother repeated the family's long standing appeal for road safety reform. This first pass covers what is confirmed so far about her death and its long aftermath; further detail on the inquest's findings will be added as they are reported.