WHITBY, Ont. Two children were hurt, one of them seriously, after an incident involving a snowplow at a school in Whitby, Ont. Durham regional police say the incident occurred around 9:40 a.m. at Julie Payette Public School. Const.
Septimo got the girl out first and kept asking “is there another, is there another?”
The boy was trapped deeper under the snow and the chain-link fence and had to be dug out.
The boy’s father told
CP24 that parents have had safety concerns about the fence that separates the schoolyard from the townhouse complex. He added it was broken by a snowplow last year.
Area resident Krista Garrett said what happened was “horrible, it’s horrible.”
“I really not happy about it,” said Garrett, who wondered aloud what the snowplow was doing in the neighbourhood.
Amanda Levy, who lives in the townhouse complex, said she wasn’t sure what had happened initially.
The Durham District School Board says it's considering renaming a public school named after former governor general Julie Payette after a blistering report found she presided over a toxic work environment.