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Several children suffered “significant” injuries in a school bus rollover north of Swan River, Man., in icy conditions on Tuesday morning.
The crash happened on Highway 10, about 13 kilometres south of Mafeking, and Swan River RCMP were called to the scene around 8:30 a.m., RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
Four people suffered “significant but non-life-threatening injuries” and were taken to hospital, police said. Multiple other students were treated for injuries at the scene and taken to hospital.
The Sapotaweyak Cree Nation Education Authority bus was carrying about 15 students in grades nine to 12, Sapotaweyak Chief Nelson Genaille told CBC News. He initially thought there were fewer students.
“With the rain yesterday and the icy, slippery conditions today, the [bus] rolled,” Genaille said. “What rushed to me right away was these are kids.”
Emergency services were at the scene quickly, and the injured were being assessed at Swan Valley Health Centre, he said.
Parents of students were travelling to the Swan River hospital to be with their children, he said.
A code orange — issued during potential large-scale incidents, including multi-vehicle crashes and mass casualties — was called at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre and at Swan Valley Health Centre, said Shared Health, which co-ordinates health-care service delivery in Manitoba.
Sapotaweyak Cree Nation is about 425 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and about 100 kilometres northeast of Swan River.
