Hero bus driver honoured
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This article was published 15/06/2011 (5390 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Bus driver Kenneth Paul’s quick thinking and level-headedness save the lives of 18 kids in a horrific head-on collision with a car last month on the province’s highways.
Today, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson honoured him with an aboriginal star blanket ceremony and a provincial plaque to recognize his heroism.
RCMP officers who investigated the collision credit Paul for saving the kids, all 18 of them, from death or serious injury on May 27. One student suffered minor injuries.
The driver and three other people in the car, including a baby, died.
The school bus had just left the school in Lundar and was taking the students from Grades 9-12 home to Lake Manitoba First Nation when the car struck the bus. Lundar is 130 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
Paul saw the car coming and responded by slowing down and pulling off to the shoulder, to move out of the way as much as possible.
After the blanket ceremony, Robinson will deliver a statement on Paul’s actions in the legislative chamber, making the act of heroism an official part of the province’s historical record.
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Updated on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:45 PM CDT: Adds photo, updates text.