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Eight people including six children have been hurt, some critically, in the head-on collision of a bus and an SUV on Highway 26 and Nottawasaga Sideroad 27/28 near Stayner Friday afternoon. All the injured were passengers in the SUV, which bore Texas license plates. The children ranged n age from four to 15. At least two ORNGE helicopters took patients to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In total, there were said to be 50 people on the bus, including 47 students. There were only minor injuries among them. They were taken to Clearview Township Transportation Community Centre on this frigid February day. CBC News quotes Glenn Attridge, president of Attridge Transportation as saying the St. Thomas More students were a day trip to Blue Mountain and were heading back to Hamilton when he said the van crossed the median and hit the bus. Clearview Fire said on Twitter that all the individuals on the bus left the community centre and headed back to Hamilton shortly after 5 p.m.
Thank you, on behalf of the St. Thomas More Catholic S. S. community, to all of your staff for taking extraordinary care of our students and staff, who were involved in the collision. We will keep the injured in our prayers. Thanks to the @OPP_News, as well. @HWCDSB
— St. Thomas More CSS (@stmcss) February 2, 2018
