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A 12-year-old boy struck by a school bus in north Edmonton has “very serious” injuries but is expected to survive, say police.

The boy was crossing Castle Downs Road NW, police believe, when a bus made a left turn from 162 Avenue at a green light and hit the child in the intersection around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The bus had just made a stop at Dunluce School and was transporting around 30 children to Baturyn School.

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Maybet Sanchez — who has been a bus driver for six years — was on her route Wednesday morning when she came across the crash site. She says a boy was laying on his side on the ground under the bus, and he wasn’t moving.

“Oh my gosh, it was scary. I was crying,” she recalled. Sanchez came back to the scene around 10 a.m. to see if the boy was okay.

“It’s traumatizing to see that can happen either to one of our drivers, to me, or to my son who also crosses the street.”