An accident that occurred on Wednesday, December 8 in the morning in Eure-et-Loir between a school bus and a utility vehicle left thirteen injured, including nine schoolchildren slightly affected and a seriously injured driver, told AFP the prefecture of the department.
The accident happened around 8 a.m. in Toury, on the edge of Loiret, between a utility vehicle and a bus carrying around fifty college students who were going to the Louis Blériot college in this town.
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The bus would have hit the utility. There are thirteen injured including one serious, the driver of the utility which is in absolute urgency and was transported to the Dreux hospital center
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Nine children were slightly injured, including bruises, bruises and slight trauma. All the children on the bus were transported to the Toury rescue center, where they were seen by a doctor,
”the prefecture said. A psychological unit has also been set up for secondary school students and their relatives.
A SMUR helicopter, three medical teams and three ambulance teams as well as about fifteen gendarmes and 34 firefighters were mobilized.
Traffic must be disrupted until late morning on the RD2020 which is closed in the province-Paris direction, the prefecture said in a press release.