Big News Article

A big News Article in Peachland and Summerland has crashed one of my favorite sites. http://www.peachlandnews.com/
Written by Dave Preston (7th June 2011) http://peachlandnews.com/blog/2011/06/07/school-bus-car-involved-in-hwy-97-accident/

A tragic accident involving a car and a school bus filled with high school students has shut down Hwy. 97 about two kilometres north of Summerland's northern boundary. It is not known what type of car was involved because emergency personnel had covered the entire vehicle in a blue tarp - usually signifying a fatality.
The bus was a 15-passenger model transporting students from Princess Margaret Secondary School in Penticton. According to a student who was at the scene but not involved in the accident, the bus was transporting students in a physical education class from the H2O Centre in Kelowna back to the Penticton School. The accident happened at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Numerous emergency vehicles from the South and Central Okanagan decended on the scene, including four fire trucks from Summerland Fire Rescue, nine ambulances, several ambulance supervisor vehicles and many police cars.
It is not known at this time what injuries were sustained by the high school students, but one person with critical head injuries was taken by helicopter to Kelowna General Hospital. Paramedics set up a triage area on the highway and one police officer said some students were transported by ambulance to Kelowna, while others were headed to Penticton.