Four people, including three high school students, were sent to hospital in non-life-threatening condition after a collision between a school bus and a truck in Oyster Pond, N.S., Wednesday afternoon.
“I stepped down on the first step and then — boom — I was down, and I kind of lost consciousness,” Erynn Baker recounted.
The 17-year-old said she was making her way off the stopped bus near her home at the time of the collision, which happened on Highway 7 next to Newcombes Lakes, about an hour’s drive from downtown Halifax.
Nova Scotia RCMP said they were called to the scene at about 3:45 p.m., after a truck allegedly rear-ended the bus, and the matter is under investigation.
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The driver of the truck was taken to hospital. The bus was carrying 10 students at the time. Both vehicles were towed away.
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Traffic in the area was blocked for approximately two hours, resulting in lineups of cars more than a kilometre long, cumulatively.
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The collision “was pretty scary and traumatizing,” Baker said.
The Eastern Shore District High School student said she has since gotten medical attention; a sore tailbone will likely be the extent of her physical injuries.
She added that residents of the community checked to see if people at the scene needed help.
“Everybody was coming, hugging me,” Baker said. “It was just really nice.”
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