Algonquin Rugby Players in School Bus Crash in Sudbury

SUDBURY, MA — Police and fire departments responded around 3:46 p.m. on Wednesday to a head-on crash involving a school bus and a car on Concord Road near Plympton Road in Sudbury.

Officers and firefighters found the driver, a 73-year-old woman from Sudbury, in a Cadillac sedan was trapped inside, and had to be extricated with the jaws of life. She was transported by the Sudbury Fire Department to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston with serious injuries.

The school bus was carrying approximately 25 students and two coaches from the Algonquin Regional High School girls' rugby team.

None of the students were seriously injured, but nine students between the ages of 15-18, and the bus driver, a 43-year-old Hudson woman, sustained minor injuries and were taken to MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Emerson Hospital in Concord. Two team coaches were also on the bus and were not injured, said a release.

The team was arriving in town to play a game against Lincoln-Sudbury.

The cause of the crash is under investigation by the Sudbury Police Department

Mutual aid was provided in the form of additional ambulances by the Wayland and Maynard Fire Departments.

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