Semi T-bones junior hockey team. 14 dead.

Maybe his lawyer was hoping for that?

 

More importantly kudos to him for not putting the families through a trial.

 

Huh? You took the time to post a photo of a truck coming over to soon and claim the driver has no regard for infadels, but this guy kills what 15 people and him you want leniency.

 

I said a little leniency. if he gets the max on all counts he’ll never get out. id rather he got some time as a deterrent to others and then deported why should the taxpayers pay for 300 yrs of incarceration?

Even if he only gets a year count of dangerous causing death that’s 16 yrs before addressing the 15 counts of dangerous driving causing harm.

 

They said the bus and trees played no role whatsoever. Seems to me like they’re shifting some blame around in that report a little bit to protect the memory of the bus driver and the ministry of transportation.

 

Maybe

 

Seriously?

If he gets the max, he’ll be out in less than 10. I’m just sayin

 

14 yrs x 16 counts = 224 years
10 yrs x 15 counts = 150 years
If sentenced to the max (374 years consecutive) ....he ain’t getting out in 10 alive unless he gets a pardon or extradition

 

Not sure where you get those ideas from. I highly doubt the RCMP give a whit of care about the ministry and the bus driver tried to avoid the accident, even though he had the right-of-way and would reasonably have no expectation of the truck running the stop sign. The blame is entirely on the truck driver.

According to the statement, Sidhu was travelling at a speed of 86 to 96 km/hr, west on Highway 335, at the point of impact.

The road conditions and weather conditions were fine for safe driving, and the intersection was clearly visible to him. The trees at the corner of the intersection would not have stopped Sidhu from seeing the approaching bus if he had stopped at the stop sign, according to the statement.

"The relevant stop sign was an 'oversized' stop sign; it was 4 feet in diameter," reads the statement.

The sign was affixed to a light standard that also had a red traffic light, that flashed once per second as a warning to drivers.

Collision unavoidable for bus driver
The bus driver, Glen Doerksen, applied the brakes to the bus and started to skid, about 24 metres before the point of impact. The bus was travelling at a speed of 96 to 107 km/h at the time of the crash.

The truck was completely in the intersection and spanning all lanes of Highway 35 when the bus hit the semi in a T-bone fashion, just forward of the wheels on the lead trailer.

"There was no way that Glen Doerksen, the bus driver, could have avoided the collision," the statement said.

The statement of facts put the responsibility of the crash fully on Sidhu, saying Doerksen recognized the hazard early and tried to avoid the crash.

"The driver of the semi-tractor unit failed to recognize the hazard and took minimal or no action in an effort to avoid the collision," it stated, noting that alcohol and drugs were not a factor, and that Sidhu was not believed to have been distracted by his cellphone at the time of the crash.

- Statement of facts shows Humboldt Broncos' driver saw danger of impact but could not stop | CBC News

"No tire skid marks due to braking were left by the semi-tractor unit," reads a statement of facts agreed to by the Crown and defence in the court case of semi driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu.

It says Sidhu simply "failed to recognize that his vehicle was approaching an intersection and did not heed the stop sign."

- Driver in Humboldt crash wasn't distracted, just didn't heed stop sign, document says | CBC News​

 

I’m not here to beat up on the guy, but If we are honest, we must assign a small percentage of blame to the bus driver and/or the trees.

He was speeding through an intersection that he was familiar with, and he knew was dangerous.

His skid marks were only 24 meters long. 24 meters is nothing. Either he wasn’t looking for oncoming traffic or his view was blocked by the trees.

We’ve all Been through two way stop intersections like that and we know to look for traffic. We don’t always do it but we know we should. Hopefully it doesn’t bite us.

The You know if we ran into the side of another vehicle like that they would tell us it was preventable because we should have seen the guy wasn’t slowing for the sign and if we weren’t speeding we could’ve reacted sooner.