Two students rushed to hospital following school bus crash

SMOKY LAKE, Alta. – Two students were rushed to hospital today after a school bus and a truck-mounted crane collided on an Alberta highway.

Alberta Health Services says one of the students was in critical condition and had to be airlifted from the crash site near Smoky Lake, about 115 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

Ross Hunter, a spokesman for Aspen View Public Schools, says the remaining students were taken to hospital as a precaution.

RCMP say they have been advised that there were 14 students on the bus at the time of the collision.