Three children and one man were transported to hospital with serious injuries after a school bus drove off the road in Sainte-Marguerite-Marie, in Quebec’s Matapédia Valley at the base of the Gaspé Peninsula.
The accident happened near an exit on Kempt Road around 8 a.m. ET as the bus was bringing the kids to elementary school.
Sgt. Claude Doiron of Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said the driver may have felt ill, leading to the crash.
There were 11 children in the bus at the time of the accident, all between the ages of seven and 13.
The spokesperson for the Lower St. Lawrence regional health authority (CISSS), Gilles Turmel, said people started arriving
