Dozens of students en route to a two-night field trip in Point Pelee were aboard a school bus that crashed along Hwy. 401 near London on Sunday morning, shutting down the westbound lanes for hours. Article content

The students from Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate, a high school in Kitchener, left Sunday morning for a two-night trip with their Gr. 9 geography class. Some believed the driver had a medical episode just before the single-vehicle crash. Article content

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“I was in the very back of the bus and it was all a blur,” said 13-year-old Charlotte Weldon, one of the estimated 40 students who were aboard. “The bus ended up going sideways in the ditch. We opened the emergency hatch in the back and everyone was helping everyone get out.”

It was shortly

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