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The collision occurred on Route 69, which, along with Highway 400, connects Greater Sudbury and Toronto.
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Posted at 12:40 p.m. ESTUpdated at 3:40 p.m. EST
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The driver of a school bus and 7 of the 12 students on board were transported to hospital by ambulance following a collision with a commercial vehicle on Highway 69 Monday morning in the southeastern Grand Sudbury.
-According to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the bus driver suffered serious, life-threatening injuries.
Two of the students suffered serious injuries, but their lives are not feared.
The driver of the commercial vehicle was not injured.
The bus was transporting students from the Conseil scolaire du Grand Nord and the Rainbow District School Board, according to the executive director of the Sudbury Student Services Consortium, Renée Boucher.
Ms. Boucher adds that the consortium and the bus company are collaborating with the Ontario Provincial Police in their investigation.
Route 69 was closed for many hours in the area of the collision.
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