Scare For Bus Load Of High School Students

A close call for a bus load of High School students on Highway 17 near Eagle River this morning.
Cole Mann and Nicholas Bouchard were on the bus when a westbound transport narrowly missed them.
Mann says they were picking up a student on the route, when an oncoming transport couldn’t stop and went into the ditch.
Bouchard was enjoying a nap when the incident happened.
He says he woke up and saw nothing but snow and a transport in the ditch.
Mann says highway conditions were bad at the time and you could see a layer of ice.
The Northwestern Ontario Student Services Consortium says no contact was made with the bus and no one was injured.
The driver is being credited for his quick thinking in putting the school bus in reverse in an effort to avert the oncoming vehicle.
Parents were notified and Provincial Police are investigating.