It was just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday when André Beaudoin pulled into the parking lot to bring his two-year-old son to daycare. The Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose in Laval, Que., was busy, with parents stopping to drop off their children for the day.
The sound of an engine revving was Beaudoin's first signal that something wasn't right. He looked up and saw a city bus barrelling down the driveway before it smashed into the front of the daycare, into the room where the oldest children — the four- and five-year-olds — gather.
In the seconds following the impact, Beaudoin, Benchaabane and another parent from the parking lot, Mike Haddad, sprinted into the shattered building. The three men, who met that day for the first time, say they'll remain haunted by what they saw. Haddad said he hears the voices of children in his head: the ones he couldn't help, who were hurt or died.
Only later would she realize how close her family had come to tragedy. She normally drops her two-and-a-half-year-old off with the older kids, the Papillons , because her daughter's room opens later. That morning, her daughter's room had been open, meaning she was safely away from the crash.
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