A huge fear.
A school bus went to bed this Friday morning in a ditch on a departmental road from Ille-et-Vilaine, to Montauban-de-Bretagne, west of Rennes.
At around 8:25 am, "a bus lay down in a ditch, with 52 students inside and the driver," said the Codis d'Ille-et-Vilaine.
#rennes School bus accident in Saint-M'hervon this morning.
The latest report shows 12 students transported in relative emergency to the hospital.
About thirty firefighters intervened.
The vehicle bit the shoulder and ended its run in the ditch pic.twitter.com/AL9V7aYsDM
- Ouest-France 35 (@ ouestfrance35) January 22, 2021
According to Ouest-France, twelve children, in relative urgency, were taken to the hospital, as well as the driver of the bus, aged 69.
The regional daily specifies that firefighters and gendarmes helped passengers get out of the vehicle by breaking the windows of the bus.
"They went out through the windows of the vehicle, because the doors were blocked under the effect of the shock", explained to Ouest-France the deputy officer of the company of Montfort, specifying that "some were shocked, but he did not 'there was no panic effect'.
An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of this accident which occurred on a straight road.
