A look at how the Quebec daycare bus crash unfolded, according to witnesses
Hamdi Benchaabane, who lives next door to the daycare, quickly knew something was wrong. He’s used to watching buses slowly navigate the roundabout at the end of his dead-end street to pull up at the bus stop in front of his house. This one instead made a sharp turn into the daycare’s driveway and headed straight for the building at a speed he estimates was 30 or 40 kilometres an hour.
Beaudoin began pushing through concrete and debris from the walls and partly collapsed ceiling and pulling injured children from under the bus in a scene he would later describe as “the worst thing in the world.”Haddad and Benchaabane, meanwhile, began wrestling with the driver, who had removed his pants and was yelling incoherently. He was, as Benchaabane said, “in another world.
The bus driver, she said, was handcuffed and dragged to the police car — naked, hysterical, his eyes “popping out of his head,” she recalled.At about 9:15 a.m., Genevieve Berthiaume Gagnon received a news alert on her phone about a bus crash at the daycare where she had dropped off her daughter, Chloe, an hour earlier. She left work and raced to the scene.Only later would she realize how close her family had come to tragedy.
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