Friday, January 17, 2014

Close Call for A School Bus Near Eagle River

A close call for a bus load of High School students on Highway 17 near Eagle River this morning.

Cole Mann and Nicholas Bouchard were two of the students on the bus when a westbound transport narrowly missed them.

Mann says they were picking up a student on the route, when an oncoming transport couldn't stop and went into the ditch.

Bouchard was enjoying a nap when the incident happened.

He says he was awakened by a flurry of snow and then saw the transport hit the ditch.

No contact was made with the bus and no one was injured.

Provincial Police are investigating.