Semi T-bones junior hockey team. 14 dead.

I'm kinda glad my company has made it a fireable offense to use any kind of electronic device while driving. That includes wireless/Bluetooth headsets too. They even install a blocker app on all company phones to block all incoming notifications when the phone detects its moving in a vehicle. So much nicer being able to focus on driving and not be bothered by office staff.

 

Looks like the trucker made a radical left turn of the wheel once he realized what was about to happen [and what had happened to put him in that situation]. I say this because if not, his energy and momentum would have carried him straight down the road if he was never aware what was coming. But I also think the front of the bus made contact with the side of the rig somewhere.

Furthermore, I'm not sure what the normal speed limit would be for the trucker but it doesn't look like he was going terribly fast at the moment of impact based on the fact he did't carry very far forward following the crash. I was going to say maybe a distracted driving or sleepy driver situation, but if he was going slower than normal, then probably not. Like maybe he slows, looks, and rolls through there as a matter of habit. But missed seeing the bus this time until too late. And I don't think the bus driver ever anticipated what was going to happen, at least very early on in time to get slowed very much. Had to be a lot of energy to totally wipe out that tractor trailer rig. just making a personal observation and providing something to think about.

 

I don't know. Looking at the image again the impact of the bus on the rigs side would have forced it off to where it ended up, but I still don't see that the rig was going very fast as if he completely blew the stop sign. At least not anywhere near a 100 km/h type speed.

The trucker may have actually, stopped [or nearly stopped], looked, missed seeing the bus, then proceeded through the intersection and the bus driver just couldn't react in a way to prevent the crash once the situation was realized.

In this situation, one wonders if the trucker didn't eventually see the bus after it was too late, but all he could do was proceed and hope for the best

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Looking at some of the pictures, the grill/hood look relatively unharmed. I'd hazard to guess that the bus t-boned the truck as that hood would have been destroyed if the truck t-boned the bus.

 

Why didn't they just make that intersection a 4 way stop after the deadly crash 20 years prior?

 

Yeah. The bus probably had to hit the trailer somewhere back towards the rear and very hard in order for the rig to have been completely flipped around 180 degrees and shifted south laterally as well.

But now I'm further confused. Until just now I had it in my head the bus was traveling south and the truck was headed west, but the above story says the bus was northbound. So how did the bus and truck end up in the SW corner of the intersection? Or maybe I just thought or for some reason assumed that was the SW corner. I give up

EDIT: No. The crash aftermath is in the SW corner. I think the reporter is geographically challenged or Google maps has flipped North and South for Canada purposes

 

Looking at the bus I'd say you're right.

 

The crash aftermath is in the NW corner. Bus was headed north, truck heading west.

Humboldt Broncos bus crash: What the photos show about the point of impact

 

Oh okay. I guess looking at the video, I was confusing one side road in the NW corner with another in the NE corner.

But then if the wreckage is in the NE corner, then it's still pretty amazing how a westbound truck failing to yield and crossing 35, ended up still facing west but completely into the NE corner of the intersection (east of 35)

 

Nope, they are in the NW corner, kitty corner from the farm in the SE corner.
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