SCHOOL BUS CRASH REPORTS 2007

No Serious Injuries as Car and School Bus Collide
February 10, 2007

BRIDGEWATER — Four children were taken to hospital Thursday after a car collided with a school bus near Bridgewater but none were hurt badly.

"An accident involving a school bus is always a very serious situation," said Paul Shields of the South Shore regional school board.

"We are all very grateful there were no life-threatening injuries or serious injuries."

Two of the children were in the car and the others on the bus. The woman driving the car was also taken to South Shore Regional Hospital in Bridgewater to be checked over.

The seven other students were picked up by a replacement bus and taken to school. The children are all elementary students at Hebbville Academy on Highway 3 just outside Bridgewater.

Lunenburg RCMP Cpl. Don Gray said the accident happened on Somerset Road in Italy Cross. The winding, gravel road was coated with a light dusting of new snow.

Cpl. Gray said in a release the two vehicles met on a long curve in the road. The car’s driver locked up the brakes and slid into the bus. The bus was knocked sideways and the passenger side front wheel dropped into a shallow ditch.

The two children in the car were bruised from the airbags and seatbelts. The two students on the bus were taken to hospital to be checked out because they were shaken by what had happened.

Mr. Shields said bus driver Allan Conrad was also shaken by the ordeal and did not do the afternoon run.

He said school principal Darren Haley went to the hospital to meet with the students and parents.

Mr. Shields said emergency personnel were hampered in their early rescue efforts because some parents showed up at the accident scene concerned their children may have been on the bus and injured.

Mr. Shields said the school got a list of all students who are usually picked up by bus No. 154 and called the parents to let them know what had happened.

By BEVERLEY WARE South Shore Bureau 

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