Aislinn Merrick. She said younger students were frozen with fear that the bus might have caught fire. Moments before the bus crashed into the field, Aislinn said she “heard what sounded like branches coming against the bus”. [b]'I could have lost a daughter'[/b]Proud dad, John Merrick, was milking cows on the family’s farm located about two miles from the crash scene. Noreen Rafferty, Principal, John the Baptist School, said all the students on the bus were "heroes".

Source: Evening echo February 08, 2018 17:26 UTC