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The bus driver was identified as 51-year old Pierre Ny St-Amand. Born in Cambodia, he arrived in Canada in 1983 in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide and was adopted as an orphan by a Québécois family originally from New Brunswick. He grew up in Sept-Îles, in the Côte-Nord region. He changed his given name from Ny to Pierre Ny in 1991.
These school buses vary in color with yellow buses being rare and are distinguishable from other buses by a yellow school zone sign or a sign that reads "School Bus" on the top rear end of the bus. Private and public schools often have 'activity' style buses, sometimes in a color matching the 'school colours' although more commonly with just ...
16 members of the Humboldt Broncos, a Saskatchewan junior hockey team, died when their team bus was struck on the side by a transport truck while crossing an intersection near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada . The dead included the driver of the bus, 10 players, as well as coaches and other team assistants. [9] Yamachiche bus collision 30 January 1954
View behind school bus driver's ... CBC Television's The Fifth Estate has been critical of a 1984 Transport Canada study, a crash test of a school bus ...
In Canada (with some still operated by the school boards) and the United Kingdom, almost all school transportation is performed by contractors. A school bus contractor may range in size from an individual driver with a single bus, to a small company serving a single school or district, to a large multi-national company with as many as 60,000 buses.
First Student Canada is a major contractor of school bus services and public transit systems. The company provides services in Canada comparable to those delivered by First Student in the United States. The component parts of the operation consist of the former Laidlaw services and subsequent new acquisitions by First Canada.
On the evening of October 7, at about 7:35 p.m., approximately 40 students from Cité-des-Jeunes high school were travelling by school bus to a dance in Hudson, Quebec, when the bus reached a level crossing. At the time of the incident, the bus was being driven by 22 year old Marcel Fleury, of Dorion.
A westbound CN freight train shattered a school bus negotiating an unguarded railway crossing. The bus driver appeared to have been blinded by the rising sun in that direction. [34] [35] Dorion level crossing accident: 7 October 1966: Dorion, Quebec: 19: 26: An eastbound CN freight train struck a school bus on a railway crossing.