Child, 9, critically hurt in crash between bus and car on Manning Drive

A mother and her nine-year-old child have been taken to hospital after a collision between a car and a Diversified bus Wednesdaymorning on Manning Drive in northeast Edmonton.

The collision happened at 8:25 a.m., police said.

The child is in critical condition.The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said Edmonton police spokesperson Cheryl Sheppard.

North and southbound lanes of Manning Drive at the exits for 17thStreet and Highway 28A were closed to traffic.

The road is now open, police said after 2 p.m. Wednesday.The major collisioninvestigation unit continues to investigate.

Snow overnight and into Wednesday morning contributed to slick road conditions in and around Edmonton.

Police reported 134 collisions between 6 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The total included 110 property-damage collisions, six injury collisions and 18 hit-and-run collisions.

The city is prepared to send out its full fleet of plows, sanders and graders more than150 pieces of equipment once the snow accumulates to more than three centimetres, it said in a news release Wednesday

When lessthan three centimetres, the city maintainsthe roads as needed, rather than sending out its full fleet.

Environment Canada iscalling for up to fourcentimetresof snow this afternoon.

With snow in the forecast last weekend,the city sent out anti-icing crews to treat select roads, bike lanes and downtown bus stops, the release said.

The anti-icing is part of a pilot project running this winter that sees a calcium chloride solution applied to certain roads in Edmonton.