In frantic moments after school bus rollover, witnesses raced to kids’ rescue
First, he heard the sound of intense braking. Then he saw a school bus crashing one field away from his rural home.
First, he heard the sound of intense braking. Then he saw a school bus crashing one field away from his rural home.
More than 50,000 students, enough to fill a small city, take buses to school every day in the London area, making thousands of trips every year without incident.
Several children were taken to hospital – including one who was flown by air ambulance – after a school bus rolled over in a single-vehicle crash near Woodstock on Tuesday morning.
School buses in three counties in the London-area have been cancelled in the wake of fog shrouding the region as a warming trend arrives.
In the midst of a school bus driver shortage, the Thames Valley District school board is investigating if it will follow the lead of other school boards by handing out free municipal bus passes to all high school students in London, St. Thomas and Woodstock.
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Parents of kids who take the bus to London region schools should brace for another year of frequent route cancellations due to a shortage of drivers, the regional busing authority says.
Buses for Middlesex, Oxford, and Elgin counties and the Red Zone are cancelled for the day Friday.
Thames Valley trustees on Tuesday night overwhelmingly backed a plan to investigate whether a free municipal bus pass would benefit high schoolers amid a critical shortage school bus drivers.
Southwestern Ontario Student Transportation Services has confirmed school purpose vehicles in Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin counties and the Red Zone will not be hitting the roads Tuesday.