A school bus stalled and lost it's brakes in the Kal Beach parking lot hitting a pick-up truck before smashing into a parked minivan. Amazingly no one was hurt. RCMP handout

School bus loses brakes in busy beach parking lot

COLDSTREAM – No one was hurt when a school bus stalled, and then lost it’s brakes in the steep, and very busy, Kal Beach parking lot in Coldstream Wednesday afternoon.

The 35-year-old woman from Saskatchewan was behind the wheel with her six children on board.

A Vernon man following the bus up the slope in his Ford F-350 truck tried to get out of the way but was smacked on the right rear end of his truck before the bus slammed into a parked Toyota Sienna minivan, sending it through a chain link fence.

The van was badly damaged according to RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk in a media release.

The bus has been taken out of service until it passes a mechanical safety inspection.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Charlotte Helston at chelston@infonews.ca or call 250-309-5230. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Howard Alexander

Howard Alexander

Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

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