Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say they have charged the driver of a tractor-trailer that rear-ended a school bus just outside Vankleek Hill on Wednesday morning.
The driver, who police say is a 51-year-old Toronto man, was charged with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act, an early morning news release from police said.
The collision occurred at 9 a.m. on Highway 34, about an hour’s drive east of Ottawa. The tractor-trailer rear-ended the school bus just down the road from Pleasant Corners Public School, where the bus was headed that morning, according to the Upper Canada District School Board.
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OPP said on Wednesday that the driver of the bus was airlifted to hospital in Ottawa with non-life-threatening injuries and four schoolchildren were taken to hospital by ambulance, also with non-life-threatening injuries.
Other students were taken to hospital “as a precautionary measure,” police said.
The occupants of two other vehicles involved in the crash were not injured, police said.
Police closed the road following the collision and re-opened it to traffic at 12:30 p.m.
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