OT: Horrific Crash involving Junior Hockey Team Bus in Saskatchewan
According to reports, the Humbolt Broncos team bus was T-boned by a semi-truck. There are fatalaties and serious injuries. The team is in a league with players 16-20 years old.
ugh... saw a ticker note on it, but it sounds much more serious than what i had initially thought...
Really sad to hear...small town hockey in Canada is treated with a kind of religious fervor on the prairies, so this is something that's going to affect a lot of people...even those peripherally connected to the team...
Best wishes to everyone touched by this tragedy.
will eventually go online and look it up. That incident is bone-chilling when you read about it.
The only incident I can recall that had nearly the fatality rate as this one.
God bless the victims, their families and friends in Canada.
I don't want autonomous vehicles that can be remotely controlled at all. If you want to save lives ban big government, who's killed hundreds of millions of innocents. That's the #1 threat to human life.
Sure thing, Donald. Jesus.
It's one big uniparty, and they don't give a shit about you buddy.
I would definitely feel a lot safer surrounded by autonomous vehicles than by the normal drivers I encounter every day on the roads.
One day driving a car will be quaint -- like riding a horse.
They should ban every non-autonomous car from Manhattan as soon as possible.
Getting a drivers license will soon be akin to getting a pilots license.
Holy hell! The picture of the scene someone tweeted (shown in the story) is absolutely horrific. There is nothing but debris - the only thing you can make out is the shell of a truck cab. Unbelievably awful.
It's going to take a long time to recover from this. I hope the families and friends can find some way to cope.
Woke up on the west coast with this being one of the lead stories on the San Diego local news. I grew up in Saskatchewan - as was noted above, during the winter, the Broncos would have been one of the focal points for a rural community like Humboldt. Every small boy and girl in town would have idolized these young men. Such a tragedy. Condolences to the families and the community.
I don't know what kind of bus they took, but my high school baseball team just had normal school busses take us to stuff. One day we got in a simple fender bender and people were flying everywhere (somewhat hyperbolic). I've alwasy felt since then that it's incredibly dangerous to have no seat belts in those busses and that any potential crash like this would do far more damage than if they did.
I guess Mike Babcock grew up in Saskatoon, which is pretty close to Humboldt... clearly shaken up...
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/mike-babcock-emotional-talking-humb…
the hockey community is a tight one, so hoping they'll rally together and help out the survivors and their families as well as providing as much support as they can to the families of those who passed
Northern priaries - intersection of 2 provincial highways. Rural, so they're 2-lane highways. The types of roads that are straight and boring, outside of an intersection with another major road every 20 miles or so.
It's a 2-way stop. One highway doesn't stop.
The one highway that doesn't stop, there are no rumble strips before approaching.
Also, there is a set of trees on the southeast corner of the intersection. The bus (presumably going north on 35, it would make sense given where they were going) would not have had the stop sign but because of the trees would also not be able to see cross-traffic approaching from the east.
Google street views, unfortunately, shows crosses already apparent at the highway.
Pretty easy to guess what may have happened: the truck driver probably wasn't paying attention on a monotonous highway, no rumble strips to get his attention prior to the intersection, and the bus had minimal chance to see him coming. Ugh.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.1033242,-104.0265648,3a,75y,11.12h,77.53…
An awful tragedy. I saw the pictures of the wreckage and it is horrific. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.