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Children injured as school bus, truck collide near Calgary

October 25, 2013 09:35 PM

Calgary: Police say no less than one youngster has been genuinely harmed in an impact between a work truck and a school transport north of Calgary.

 

A Stars air emergency vehicle representative says a five-year-old kid has been flown from the accident site close Crossfield to the Children's Hospital in Calgary.

 

Provides details regarding the amount of kids on the transport have changed.

 

At the same time an agent for the province says nine children were en route to class when the mischance happened.

 

Stacy Mcguire of Rocky View County says eight kids and the transport driver have been taken to doctor's facility by ground emergency vehicle.

 

Rcmp Const. Robert Frizzell says the wounds extend from intense to non-life-debilitating.

 

"Beginning reports show that the transport was transporting more youthful evaluation  school- to center school-matured youngsters," said Frizzell.

 

Crossfield Mayor Nathan Anderson said the youngsters go to Crossfield Elementary School, one of two schools in the neighborhood of 3,000.

 

"I am extremely concerned. Our petitions to God go out to those children and families," Anderson said. "We just trust, God eager, they are all Ok and will haul out of this without any enduring impacts."

 

Frizzell said its not yet recognized what made the collision.

 

"We're not exactly beyond any doubt what the helping element to this impact was, if that is restricted perceivability or way conditions or what's really there," he said.

 

"We've reached our impact reconstructionists out of Calgary to go to and establish that."

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