Head coach among 14 killed in Sask. junior hockey team bus crash

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/nipawin-humboldt-bus-crash-1.4609835

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Coaches Corner ... 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=308&v=z-lLYCzAJXI

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

This is the part that has me restraining myself from jumping to conclusions:

The semi-trailer would have had to yield to a stop sign before crossing over the highway that the hockey bus was travelling on.

It's wide open there and the roads are straight as the crow flies. In other words... this intersection should be one of the safest intersections in the world.

The wreckage is unfathomable. I can't imagine the force of the collision. I can't imagine the horror of the scene. This is an extremely disturbing event.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rcmp-say-multiple-factors-under-consideration-in-broncos-team-bus-crash/ar-AAvBsxe?li=AAggNb9&ocid=edgsp

I've seen Google map pictures of that intersection.  It's very baffling.  Either the trucker didn't stop, did stop and didn't see the bus or misjudged somehow...

How many more of these tragic accidents do we need involving semi/passenger vehicles before we pass stricter requirements to drive those trucks ... you can get your licence in less than 2 months to drive one of those.  The Toronto Star did a piece a few years ago about how many drivers were getting poorly trained at  fly-by-night schools.  It's still to early to speculate I guess...but I do not see how the bus was a fault.
My wife drives semi.  Any job she has had, they only drug when they hired her, and road test before...never been drugs tested after being hired, has never been road tested  by company every so often, or has ever been offered additional training, many truckers drive 10-13 hour days ... the pay is not that great for the hours they put in, that is why many push on long after they are to tired to be safe.  And yes these companies expect/demand the drivers max out their hours weekly.  Another fact to consider, the drivers are getting older...but the same expectations are expected of 55 year old driver, as a 24 year old driver.  I know I do not have the same energy level as 53 year old that I did in my 20's.  I think something has to change.  Will things change, likely not...

After seeing that overhead shot of the debris field, it really is a miracle that 14 people did survive ... unfortunately 15 souls did not make it, life cut to short...

Sad day all around...

And if this driver is at fault, id have no problem seeing him spend the remainder of his days in prison...

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

We battle poor truck drivers on the Coquihalla (Highway Thru Hell) all the time. I'm not even going to begin to tell you my experiences which I'm sure are the same as everyone else's. There are several professional drivers, but there are many really poor drivers that, quite frankly, cause havoc. They are responsible for numerous highway closures and numerous accidents through sheer negligence or flat out incompetence.

Speed was an issue here- it had to have been. If the truck had been stopped at the stop sign and then made the decision to proceed-not recognizing that a bus was still in the intersection- the collision would have been significant, but not so significant that both vehicles are destroyed with the semi load dispersed over numerous concentric circles and the bus reduced to its chassis.

My hunch is that the driver was never intending to stop- either not recognizing he needed to... or thinking the bus was going to.

I agree with you all accounts ... I live in Ontario along the 401 corridor ... drove that hwy for 20 years to, most semi drivers are not very professional, nor are they good drivers...if you ever get chance, watch heavy rescue 401...

if the driver blew through the stop sign, then he should rot in prison...

ive only been to sasketewan once...

but I saw many of these type of  intersections ... Saskatchewan is not overly congested...many of these truckers are complacent behind the wheel. Changes need to come to the trucking industry...but that has to come from the feds...

I post this because some local politicians say they need rumble strips and these trees block visibility.

A fully loaded semi that has not slowed by the time it comes across rumble strips, probably it's too late.  If the truck was stopped, and the trees blocked his disability, the you proceed with extreme caution...  I really do not see a problem with this intersection... Driving is not rocket science...just way to many careless and inattentive drivers on the road.