'When I woke up I was in the snow,' says 1 of 3 teens airlifted to Winnipeg after bus rollover
CBC
One of three Manitoba high school students airlifted to Winnipeg after the school bus she was travelling in slid off the highway and rolled multiple times says she thought she was dreaming.
Drayah Maytwayashing was asleep when the bus slid while trying to pass another bus amid icy conditions on Highway 10 just south of Mafeking Tuesday morning.
"I opened my eyes. We were swerving so bad, and we went into the ditch," the 17-year-old said in an interview in Winnipeg on Wednesday, after she was released from hospital.
"I blacked out. I don’t really remember … and I woke up on the other side of the bus, screaming, on a different seat. I woke up all bloody, and I have a big gash on my forehead."
Maytwayashing, her brother Drayden Genaille and cousin Michelle Chartrand — all from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation — were among 15 people, including the school bus driver, on the bus.
In addition to the gash on her head, Maytwayashing sustained two small fractures to her pelvis. Genaille was discharged from the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg Tuesday night, and Maytwayashing and Chartrand were released Wednesday.
Four of those injured in the rollover suffered "significant but non-life-threatening injuries," RCMP said Tuesday.
Several other students were treated for injuries at the scene and taken to Swan Valley Health Centre in the town of Swan River, about 380 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
One patient is expected to remain at Swan Valley Health Centre in stable condition, health officials said in a Wednesday news release.
While it was initially reported on Tuesday that four patients were transferred to Health Sciences Centre, further assessment confirmed only three transfers were required, the update from Shared Health and Prairie Mountain Health said.
Both Genaille and Chartrand were looking forward to hanging out with their friends at lunch Tuesday at Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River, where they're taking hairstyling classes.
"I wasn’t really worried about myself," Genaille, 16, told CBC. "I was more worried about my sister."
He’s sore after being ejected out one of the bus’s windows, he said.
"When I woke up I was in the snow, and I just jumped up and ran to the road," he said.
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