No Children Injured Following School Bus Collision

No children were injured following a collision between a school bus and car in the Comox Valley on Wednesday morning.

No children were injured following a collision between a school bus and car in the Comox Valley on Wednesday morning.

The call came in shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Fitzgerald Road in Merville.

Oyster River Fire Rescue Chief Bruce Green said the crash appears to have occurred when a vehicle left its driveway and T-boned a mini-school bus on the right side.

 The impact shattered the glass of the passenger door of the bus and caused considerable damage to the front end of the woman’s vehicle.

Green says the two students who were riding the bus at the time were shaken but uninjured. They were transferred to a second mini-bus which was brought in so they could continue their trip to school.

The driver of the bus complained of a sore back and was attended to by paramedics before being released at the scene.

The elderly woman who was driving the car was uninjured but was also assessed by the ambulance crew.

Both the Oyster River and Courtenay Fire Departments were initially dispatched to the call.