Category: bus crash

Eastern Quebec Bus Crash Kills Two People, Leaves Many in Hospital

Health officials say eight people remain in hospital after a collision between a car and a bus Tuesday evening that killed two people in St-Fabien, Que. Dr. Pascal Ducharme of the Bas-Saint-Laurent regional health authority told reporters today that 41 people were evaluated by doctors after the accident. He said one person was in intensive…


Colombian Bus Crash Kills at Least 20

BOGOTA—At least 20 people were killed and 14 more injured on Saturday when a bus crashed on a road between the southwestern Colombian cities of Pasto and Popayan, police said. Images on Colombian television showed the bus flipped over in the early morning accident, which authorities said may have been caused by a mechanical fault….


Victorian School Remains Open After Crash

A college in regional Victoria will remain open in the wake of a serious bus crash involving 27 of its students to support others left traumatised by the ordeal. Ballarat’s Loreto College will keep its doors open on Thursday despite the day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, so students, families and carers can come…


Student Seriously Injured in Bus Rollover in Victoria

A school bus had been slowing down to avoid a crash when a truck hit it from behind, forcing it down an embankment on a highway west of Melbourne. A teenage girl and a driver were seriously injured in the accident on the Western Highway at Bacchus Marsh in the early hours of Wednesday morning….


Saskatchewan Appeal Court Removes Injunction, Allows Broncos Lawsuit to Proceed

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has set aside a temporary injunction that halted a lawsuit filed by some parents of those who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when an inexperienced truck driver went through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey…


Fiery Crash of Bus, Fuel Tanker Kills at Least 18 in Mexico

MEXICO CITY—A fiery crash between a tanker truck carrying fuel and a passenger bus Saturday killed at least 18 people in northern Mexico, authorities reported. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Tamaulipas said the crash might have been caused by one of the truck’s two tank trailers coming lose. The collision left both vehicles…


Amphibious Tour Bus Crashes Into Gates of 24 Sussex, PM’s Vacant Official Residence

No injuries have been reported after an amphibious tour bus crashed this morning into the gates at 24 Sussex Drive, the prime minister’s unoccupied official residence. Etienne Cameron, a co-owner of Lady Dive Tours in Ottawa, said the company is investigating the crash involving one of its vehicles and the driver, whom he did not…


9 Killed Including 5 Sudanese in Bus Crash in Southern Egypt

CAIRO—Nine people including five Sudanese citizens were killed and 43 people were injured in a road collision in southern Egypt early on Thursday, a senior health ministry official said. Of those injured, 40 were thought to be Sudanese, though identification procedures were ongoing, said health ministry undersecretary Ehab Hanafi. Witnesses told Reuters the bus came…


Bus Crash Kills 20 in Southwest Pakistan: Official

QUETTA, Pakistan—A passenger bus plunged into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday killing 20 people, a government official said. The road crash also injured another 13 people aboard the bus that was travelling from garrison city of Rawalpindi to Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, said Ijaz Jaffar, deputy commissioner of Sherani district….


Several Injured in Bus Crash in El Segundo

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—More than a dozen people were injured Monday, at least two critically, in a crash involving a Los Angeles commuter bus and a parked big rig in the El Segundo area. The crash occurred around 8:25 a.m. in the 5600 block of West Imperial Highway, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, which…