Driver, passenger seriously injured when pickup rear-ends school bus in southern Alberta

RCMP say the female driver of a pickup truck that rear-ended a school bus in southern Alberta is in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

A male passenger was also seriously injured.

Mounties in Strathmore, east of Calgary, say the bus was stopped on a rural road in Wheatland County Tuesday morning to pick up students.

They say the collision pushed the bus forward and a student was hit by the mirror, but was not seriously hurt.

No other students on the bus were injured.

Strathmore RCMP and a RCMP collision analyst are investigating.