School bus full of children slides off road into ditch in rural Quebec

By The Staff Global News

Posted February 8, 2017 11:21 am EST

Updated February 8, 2017 11:47 am EST

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WATCH ABOVE: It was a dramatic morning for a busload of children heading to school in La Presentation, Que as their bus skidded into a ditch due to icy weather – Feb 8, 2017

A school bus carrying 25 students from a local elementary and high school in La Presentation, about 45 minutes from Montreal, skidded off the ice-covered road, le rang Salvail, and ended up in a ditch.

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It happened at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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“The children and the bus driver had no injuries,” Sûreté du Québec (SQ) spokesperson Ingrid Asselin told Global News.

La Presentation is a farming community northwest of Sainte-Hyacinthe.

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