Semi T-bones junior hockey team. 14 dead.

I happened to come upon that intersection this summer going the other way and if the truck was going above 50 km/hr the bus driver never stood a chance .. truck would’ve just popped out of the trees in front of you

 

Yep That’s what I’m saying.....the trees were a factor and the rcmp is protecting the province and the ministry of transportation by saying they aren’t.

Either the trees blocked the bus drivers view or he wasn’t watching for traffic. Gotta be one or the other Can’t have it both ways.

Now....if my kid is on a bus and the bus driver has local knowledge of that dangerous blind intersection I would hope he thinks enough of my kid to slow down and make sure there’s not something popping out from behind the trees again

 

Your premise is absurd.

 

My premise is 100% correct. Magoo has told us the trees were a factor why do you insist they weren’t?

 

Not stopping at the stop sign was the sole factor. Nothing else. The trees are immaterial to the act of blowing through a stop sign without slowing down. It is negligence on the part of the truck driver, pure and simple. There is no reason to assume the cross traffic to Highway 35 would not stop.

You make absurd leaps of logic; "the RCMP are protecting the ministry...", "the bus driver is partly at fault...", "the trees are a factor..." How about "the truck driver should have come to a full and complete stop and proceeded only when it was safe to do so"?

BTW, it isn't the RCMP's job to do an engineering analysis of the intersection (that's been done). Their job is to investigate the accident and prepare a report on the same.

 

Absurd Leaps of logic? I don’t think so. There is rarely if ever a single cause.

If those trees aren’t there the bus driver sees the truck is going to run the stop sign and maybe he stops the bus in time. At a minimum fewer people die. Not sure why you’re having trouble with such a simple concept

The other day I was traveling 60 in a 50 zone when a 4 pulled in front of me. I stopped but I could’ve hit the car. Would I have been partially responsible? Yes because I was speeding and driving too fast for traffic conditions in that busy intersection. I knew better because I drive through there all the time

 

I'm not having trouble with the concept at all; it's just that you're unequivocally wrong.

 

You don’t get to just repeat wrong wrong wrong. You have to tell me why the trees did not play a role in that accident.

And Don’t tell me the trees are irrelevant the the truck running the sign. We all know that. It is an absolutely undeniable fact that the trees blocked the bus drivers view therefore they played a big role

Hmmmm...Whose job is it to do the engineering analysis on the intersection? The ministry of transportation. If you think one branch of the government (cops) won’t protect another from liability in the upcoming civil suit you are younger and more naive than I thought

 

You're pathetic. I wonder if this sidhu guy would have killed your family if you would have the same sympathy for him. Give me a freaking break man. I always wonder when someone like you defends the indefensible if you've been in this situation and just got lucky and this is your way of becoming defensive and argumentative.

 

I’m not the one being defensive.

What separates me from the uneducated masses here is my ability to be honest and objective. Try it

Trees shouldn’t be there. Bus driver should’ve been more careful than to speed through a blind intersection with 30+ souls in his care. Not sure how that translates to sympathy for the truck driver.

The truth isn’t dependent upon whose kids got killed. You might not like it but if you have the capacity of thought, you know I’m right.