April 28, 2008

Gravel truck collides with SUV and school bus, claims one life

RICHARD GILBERT

staff writer

A gravel truck slammed into a school bus on a highway in central Alberta killing a 17-year-old girl and leaving a second student in the hospital in critical condition.

The incident occurred on April 9, when a school bus stopped to pick up students on Highway 53 outside Rimbey, AB, at about 8:15 a.m.

The bus was hit from behind, after a gravel truck smashed into the right rear corner of an SUV that had stopped behind the bus.

The gravel truck spun off the SUV and hit the right rear corner of the school bus.

The highway was covered in fog at the time of the crash.

The impact of the crash threw three students from the rear of the bus and onto the road.

They were taken by ambulance to the Rimbey hospital, where Jennifer Dawn Noble died from her injuries.

She was a Grade 12 student at Rimbey Junior Senior High School.

A 14-year-old boy was transferred by ground ambulance to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.

He was listed in critical, but stable condition.

The students on the bus, operated by the school division, ranged from elementary to high-school age.

They were on their way to three different schools in Rimbey, about 140 kilometres southwest of Edmonton and 200 kilometres north of Calgary.

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