Investigation into B.C. school bus crash could take months: RCMP
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Sarah Duff's daughter is one of dozens of children recovering after a school bus crash north of Lac La Hache last week that resulted in injuries to an estimated 36 people.
A subsequent accident at the same location left one person, a 67-year-old man from the Cariboo, dead. Police say he was a pedestrian and was killed by an oncoming vehicle.
The investigation into the cause of the crash could take months, RCMP say.
Police say they were called to a bus crash on Highway 97 at Butler Road at about 1 p.m. PT on June 21. The B.C. Highway Patrol said the bus, carrying students in grades 6 and 7 on the way home from a field trip, was travelling on Highway 97 when it went off the road and down a 15-metre embankment.
Duff said her daughter, a Grade 7 student at Horse Lake Elementary, was sitting at the back of the bus when the accident happened.
"All of a sudden, she woke up and was near the front of the bus, and everybody was crying, and it was chaos," she told CBC's Daybreak Kamloops host Shelley Joyce.
She said her daughter was one of the many students who climbed out the window of the bus, and she found someone with a phone so she could call her mom.
"Worst phone call a parent could ever get."
Duff jumped in her vehicle and drove to the accident site. Cars were at a standstill on the highway, so she got out of her car and ran to her daughter.
She was already at the scene when she got word from the school district that parents were to meet their kids at the local rec centre in 100 Mile House.
"There were numerous parents already there," Duff recalled.
"It's a small community, so we kind of all just phoned everybody we knew."
Duff worries that her daughter will have lasting psychological impacts from the crash and plans to enrol her in counselling as they head into summer.
"A field trip is supposed to be a happy thing, a good end to the school year. They've had a rough year. Not really the best way to end Grade 7."
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