Sudbury – A Sudbury woman was killed and nine Algonquin Regional High School (ARHS) students received minor injuries when a school bus they were on was involved in a head-on collision in Sudbury Wednesday afternoon.
Approximately 25 members of the ARHS girls’ rugby team were traveling to a match at Lincoln-Sudbury High School when their bus was involved in an accident with a car driven by Patricia Metz, 73, of Sudbury.
According to Sudbury Police Chief Scott Nix and Sudbury Fire Chief William Miles, Metz was trapped inside the vehicle and had to be extricated by the Sudbury Fire Department using the Jaws of Life. She was then transported by the Sudbury Fire Department to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where she succumbed to her injuries.
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.
Sudbury town officials and Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School staff provided logistical support as well as a location at the high school where the ARHS students were reunited with their families.
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.