Six people have been transported to hospital by ambulance after a collision involving a school bus in central Alberta.
An RCMP officer from Didsbury, about 82 kilometres north of Calgary, came across the school bus rollover on Highway 2A at Township Road 320, police said Monday.
“We can report that there were nine students, two teachers and the driver on the bus at the time of (the) collision,” police said in a statement later in the day.
Emergency Medical Services said paramedics responded at about 10:30 a.m., and took the patients by ground ambulance to Calgary and Didsbury.
“A total of six individuals were transported to hospital,” spokesman Adam Loria said in an email.
Two youths and an adult were taken to hospitals in Calgary, while three youths were taken to Didsbury Health Centre.
Loria said all six had non-life-threatening injuries.
RCMP said Didsbury officers remained at the scene Monday afternoon.
“Road conditions at the time are believed to be the cause of the collision, however, it is still under investigation,” said the statement.
Police said Highway 2A will likely be closed for three to four hours, and asked motorists to avoid the area.
RCMP said earlier Monday that they were responding to multiple collisions in the area, including about 12 between Carstairs and Olds on Highway 2, due to poor road conditions.
Albertans woke up to freezing rain ahead of a predicted snowfall that Environment Canada said could see accumulations of 10 to 15 centimetres before Tuesday.
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