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BRAMPTON, Ontario — At least 14 elementary students have been rushed to hospital, one with “very serious injuries,” after a school bus crashed in Brampton Wednesday morning.
Emergency crews arrived on scene around 9:30 a.m. ET to find one student showing no vital signs. They resuscitated the nine-year-old, then rushed the boy to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.
The condition of the child is described as “very serious,” said Ontario Provincial Police Const. Julia McCuaig. Another child is in serious but non life-threatening condition.
At least 12 other children have been taken to a hospital with minor injuries described as bumps and bruises, said OPP and school board officials.
The bus collided with a tractor-trailer in a “minor sideswipe,” said OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley.
“As a result of that, the bus veered into the muddy grass median that separates the north and southbound lanes,” said Woolley. “It’s pretty rough terrain and the bus bounced around quite a bit.”
The bus veered off Highway 410 into a “muddy grass median” south of Clark Boulevard, but didn’t overturn.
“It’s good that it stopped where it did,” Woolley said.
The Grade 4 students are from Mississauga’s St. Alfred School, part of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
Students were on their way to a field trip at an outdoor recreation centre.