From CBC News:
Police are investigating whether mobile phone use led to an accident involving six high school students Monday. (CBC)Winnipeg police are trying to determine if cellphone use played a role in a crash involving six students Monday.
The Shaftesbury High School students were injured when the Jeep they were travelling in flipped over on Grant Avenue at about 12:45 p.m.
The five youths and one 18-year-old adult were treated at hospital and released.
Police say speed may have been a factor in the crash. It appears the 18-year-old driver lost control then hit the centre median curb, which caused the vehicle to roll.
Investigators also are looking into the possibility the driver was talking on a cellphone at the time of the crash.
Maggie Evoy, a driver's ed instructor at school, said she drove by as the students were being loaded into an ambulance, and recognized the Jeep.
"When I found who it was I just, I couldn't believe it," she said. "It was like, oh no, because a couple of the kids that were in that car I know. It's really hard … I really feel for the families right now."
Evoy said the driver was on his cellphone talking to a friend back at the school when the call went dead. She said driver did take the driver's course at the school and that students are taught about the dangers of using cellphones behind the wheel.
Police spokesman Const. Jason Michalyshen said not everyone in the Jeep was wearing a seatbelt and it is "quite miraculous" the injuries aren't more serious.
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