A road accident occurred Wednesday morning around 8 a.m. in Toury, in Eure-et-Loir, between a school bus carrying around fifty college students who were going to the Louis-Blériot college in this town and a utility vehicle. Thirteen injured, including nine college students slightly affected, were identified, announced the prefecture of the department.
The driver of the utility, seriously injured, was hospitalized but was no longer in an absolute emergency at the beginning of the afternoon, said the prefecture. “The bus would have hit the utility. There are 13 injured including one serious, the driver of the utility which is in absolute urgency and was transported to the Dreux hospital center ”, had initially indicated the prefecture.
Three college students in the emergency room
Nine college students were slightly injured in the accident. Three of them were transported to the emergency room of the Chartres hospital center, as were three passengers in the utility vehicle. The other students “were taken over by their families,” said the prefecture in the early afternoon.
The nine injured schoolchildren “present in particular bruises, bruises and slight trauma. All the children on the bus were transported to the Toury rescue center, where they were seen by a doctor, ”she said. A psychological unit has also been set up for secondary school students and their relatives. A Smur helicopter, three medical teams and three ambulance teams as well as about fifteen gendarmes and 34 firefighters were mobilized.