By The Canadian Press

Crash

Driver in hospital after rear-ending school bus

Apr 2, 2019 | 5:05 PM

STRATHMORE, Alta. – RCMP say the female driver of a pickup truck that rear-ended a school bus in southern Alberta is in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

A male passenger was seriously injured.

Mounties in Strathmore, east of Calgary, say the bus was stopped on a rural road in Wheatland County this morning to pick up students.

They say the collision pushed the bus forward and a student was hit by the mirror, but was not seriously hurt.

No other students on the bus were injured.

Strathmore RCMP and a RCMP collision analyst are investigating.