November 20th, 2024

CP NewsAlert: 11 people sent to hospital in school bus crash in Burnaby, B.C.,

By The Canadian Press on November 9, 2023.

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

BURNABY, B.C. – Eleven people have been sent to hospital after a school bus crashed into a home in Burnaby, B.C.

BC Emergency Health Services says in a statement that all 11 patients are in stable condition.

Health services says the call came in just before 8 a.m. today about the accident.

Police have asked drivers to avoid a busy stretch of Canada Way.

Photos on social media show the bus wedged into the front of a home at the corner of Canada Way and 16th Avenue.

The 24-seat bus appears to have smashed through a low brick wall then through the front wall and windows of the home.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 9, 2023.

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