UK Scouts hurt in Canada bus crash

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The Scout group was travelling towards Toronto, Canada, when their coach and a lorry collided leaving 16 hurt. One teenage girl suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.

The Lancashire-based group was on a two-week adventure trip when the accident happened in eastern Ontario shortly after 6pm BST on Thursday.

Scout Association spokesman Simon Carter said 10 youngsters, aged between 14 and 18, were taken to hospital.

"I think they had a lucky escape," he said. "One of the coaches was involved in a crash with what appears to be an articulated lorry.

"Some young people sustained injuries. Fortunately none of them are life-threatening. They are cases of broken bones and shock."

He said the injured passengers were part of a group of 102 Scouts and leaders from west Lancashire who had been on the trip.

"They were travelling back to Toronto in two coaches - they were about 150 miles away," Mr Carter said.

"The emergency services were on the scene exceptionally quickly. We have a team of people in the UK speaking to parents and letting them know the majority of the group is OK."

The Foreign Office said: "We can confirm there has been a bus crash that involves British nationals in Ontario. We are offering consular assistance."