023 – Procedure for Collision

In the event a school bus is involved in an collision, a series of communications and actions must take place, depending on the seriousness of the collision. Our first and foremost priority is the students’ well-being.

Levels of Emergency

Level 1 serious injury sustained by a student.

Level 2 non-serious injury sustained by a student.

Level 3 emergency requiring a change of bus only.

Level 4 emergency causing a delay in bus travel time.

1. Verify the passengers’ condition.
2. Ensure that all passengers are safe.
3. Assist the students who are injured.
4. Ask a responsible student on the bus to keep the group of students together until the arrival of the emergency teams.
5. Contact the dispatcher to report the collision (time, location, etc.).
6. Request that emergency teams be dispatched to the scene of the collision.
7. Assist the injured student until the arrival of the emergency teams, without moving him/her, unless it is absolutely necessary.
8. Keep the students who are not injured away from any source of danger.

1. Call emergency services, i.e. police and ambulance.
2. Immediately inform STWDSTS as well as the school principal about the details of the collision, including the students’ and bus driver’s condition.
3. Dispatch a replacement vehicle and ask the driver to cover this route in addition to his own, if needed.
4. Dispatch a person in charge of collisions to the scene in order to take photographs and record details pertaining to the collision.
5. Submit Collision Report (TF010) to STWDSTS within 24 hours following the collision.

1. Record all the pertinent information in writing.
2. Contact the school principal.
3. Inform the members of the STWDSTS Management Committee and Board representatives as appropriate.
4. Inform the parents/guardians of the students who were on the bus, when the school staff cannot be reached.
5. Keep a telephone line free for communication
6. Direct the parents/guardians phone calls to the school principal.
7. Send one or more staff representatives to the hospital.
8. Direct phone calls from the media to the Communications Department of the school board that has the bus involved in the collision.
9. Submit Collision Report (TF010) and staff notes relating to the collision to the Board office.

1. Alert STWDSTS if contact has not been made.
2. Forward the instructions of STWDSTS to the school staff.
3. Inform the parents/guardians.
4. Designate staff members to respond to questions from the parents/guardians or to meet with them.
5. Fill out an OSBIE report and forward on to the Board Office.
6. Delegate staff members to go to the hospitals.
7. Prepare a letter for parents/guardians with the assistance of the Communication Department of the school board that has the bus involved in the collision.

1. Record in writing all information about the phone calls concerning the collision.
2. Report the facts clearly and accurately.
3. Inform STWDSTS of any new development.
4. Forward the instructions of STWDSTS to the appropriate staff.
5. Follow the school principal’s instructions.
6. Direct phone calls from the media to the Communications Department of the school board that has the bus involved in the collision.

1. Follow the school principal’s instructions.

1. Verify the passengers’ condition.
2. Ensure that all passengers are safe
3. Contact his/her company dispatcher:
   • To inform him/her of the time and location of the collision.
   • To ask that emergency services and the police be dispatched, if necessary.
   • To request a new vehicle, if required.
4. To comfort the students until the arrival of the replacement bus.

1. Dispatch the appropriate emergency services to the scene of the collision.
2. Dispatch a replacement bus to the scene, if required.
3. Inform school and STWDSTS about the collision.
4. Send Collision Report (TF010) to STWDSTS within 24 hours after the collision.

1. Record all the pertinent information in writing.
2. Contact the school principal.
3. Inform the members of the Management Committee of STWDSTS.
4. Submit Collision Report (TF010) and staff notes relating to the collision to the Board office

1. Alert STWDSTS if contact has not been made.
2. Inform the parents/guardians.
3. Forward the instructions of STWDSTS to the appropriate staff.
4. Prepare and distribute the letter to parents/guardians.

1. Follow the school principal’s instructions.

1. Record all the pertinent information in writing and forward it to the school principal.
2. Report the facts clearly and accurately.
3. Follow the school principal’s instructions.