Four people hurt after pickup collides with rear of school bus
Posted Apr 26, 2017 06:41:47 PM.
Last Updated Apr 27, 2017 05:25:06 AM.
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OYSTER POND, N.S. – Three children and an adult were sent to hospital after a pickup truck rear-ended a school bus Wednesday on a rural highway east of Halifax.
RCMP said the children and the driver did not sustain serious injuries and have since been released from hospital.
The crash happened at 3:45 p.m. on Highway 7 near Oyster Pond, N.S., about a hour’s drive east of Halifax.
Erynn Baker is a grade 11 student at Eastern Shore District High School, and describes her experience to Global News.
“It was my stop so the bus started to stop,” said Baker. “I stepped down onto the first step and then boom – I was down, and I kind of lost consciousness a little bit because I don’t remember what happened.”
Baker says she ran down her driveway to get her dad, who helped a girl out of the pickup truck. The 17-year-old called the experience “scary and traumatizing”.
The highway remained closed to traffic for just under two hours.
Photos taken at the scene show that the truck’s engine compartment was badly damaged, as was a small section of the rear of the bus, below its rear emergency door.
Mounties said they are still investigating the cause of the collision.
