Classes will resume at a Bathurst, N.B., high school Monday with grief counsellors on hand to help students deal with the deaths of seven teenagers and a local teacher.
A Bathurst High Phantoms basketball shirt and flowers mark the crash site near Bathurst, N.B., on Monday.
(Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press) The small community has been in shock since the crash early Saturday as the students, all members of the Bathurst school's boys' basketball team, were returning from a game in Moncton.
Seven members of the team and the wife of the team's coach were killed when their 12-seat van fish-tailed and slammed head-on into a transport truck on an icy road.
The accident happened on a straight stretch of road only minutes from Bathurst, where the teens' parents were waiting to pick them up at a local fast-food restaurant.
Travelling in the winter with school sports teams is part of high school life, said McLaughlin, but the school board will review its winter transportation policies in light of this tragedy.
The Department of Education will also be conducting its own review of policy regarding travel for extra-curricular activities, said Minister Kelly Lamrock.
"I think any time you have something happen that has an unacceptable result, you review," Lamrock told CBC News. "But at this point in time, you also need facts."
Experts will be brought in to conduct the investigation, Lamrock said, and after the factors that caused the crash are determined the government will move forward.
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(Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
Seven members of the team and the wife of the team's coach were killed when their 12-seat van fish-tailed and slammed head-on into a transport truck on an icy road.
The accident happened on a straight stretch of road only minutes from Bathurst, where the teens' parents were waiting to pick them up at a local fast-food restaurant.
Travelling in the winter with school sports teams is part of high school life, said McLaughlin, but the school board will review its winter transportation policies in light of this tragedy.
The Department of Education will also be conducting its own review of policy regarding travel for extra-curricular activities, said Minister Kelly Lamrock.
"I think any time you have something happen that has an unacceptable result, you review," Lamrock told CBC News. "But at this point in time, you also need facts."
Experts will be brought in to conduct the investigation, Lamrock said, and after the factors that caused the crash are determined the government will move forward.
Full story
What rules could make school sports trips safer in winter?
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