A bus carrying a team of teenage hockey players lost control on an icy highway north of Edmonton and crashed into a heavily-treed area, leaving all on board with various injuries including some that required hospitalization.

The single-vehicle motor vehicle collision on Highway 2, south of Athabasca , Alta., happened early Friday morning.

Athabasca RCMP said the coach bus transporting a local Junior A hockey team was travelling south when it lost control and entered the west ditch, crashing through several trees.

RCMP said there were 17 people on the bus: the driver and 16 passengers — most of whom were youths between the ages of 15 and 19.

All of the occupants sustained injuries of various severity as a result of the collision, police said.

Two of those teenagers were taken by EMS

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