Canada - Canadian hockey team fatal bus accident tragedy, 6 April 2018

[missy1974]

From the updates today, it sure seems like the RCMP are doing everything they can to figure out exactly what happened.

 

[gregjrichards]

Thanks gregjrichards for all the links and updates... you are awesome I think we should make you an honorary :canada: Canadian :canada:

Off topic

Thank you for your kindness. I love Canada and I’m so sorry for the tragedy that has happened in your great nation. I loved the time I spent in Toronto and Niagra Falls and I know there is so much more to see. Unfortunately due to my health I couldn’t do the flight now but I would go back in a heartbeat if I could.

On topic.

I’m glad the investigators are being so thorough the families of those who lost their lives, the injured and all Canadians need to know the truth about exactly what happened. I just hope that action will be taken to try and ensure this catastrophic loss never ever happens again when the investigation is complete.

Are junctions like the crash site relatively rare in this part of Canada? I just wondered if you would know how it functioned if you had never driven up to a junction like it before.

 

[dyannaON]

Gregjrichards.
I actually thought you were Canadian. [emoji851][emoji23]🤷🏻*♀️


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[gregjrichards]

The hard lessons that can be learned from the Humboldt Broncos crash

Better signage, a crackdown on inexperienced drivers and seatbelts on buses have all been raised as ways to prevent a similar tragedy

http://thestarphoenix.com/news/cana...rash/wcm/21afef31-4674-4834-8504-1c58d261e81a

 

[gregjrichards]

On Thursday, Ryan flew from Saskatoon — with his mom, Michelle, by his side — to Calgary, where he will begin a long rehabilitation journey at the Foothills Medical Centre hospital.

He's doing pretty good ... but I'd say it's going to be an uphill battle — he's still, every day, trying to make his feet move," said Tom Straschnitzki, Ryan's father.

"We tell him, 'Well, keep doing it, and one day maybe they will.' "

Tom said he plans to drive his oldest son's vehicle back from Humboldt, Sask., to Airdrie on Friday, which is also Ryan's birthday.

He already has a plan to make the day special.

"I think I might sneak over to The Keg and get his favourite steak and shrimp combo," Tom said.

"And I imagine he's going to have a lot of visitors — all his buddies, and family, of course."

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...rash-returns-home-to-celebrate-19th-birthday/

Happy 19th Birthday Ryan. I hope you have had a nice day with your loved ones and friends.

 

[dyannaON]

The boys are having a good game.

Clouds in Saskatoon.

https://www.facebook.com/929theBULL/posts/10155631765346872

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[gregjrichards]

The boys are having a good game.

Clouds in Saskatoon.

https://www.facebook.com/929theBULL.../QUOTE] WOW Thanks so much for posting this.

 

[tarabull]

Goosebumps and tears...

#HumboldtStrong

 

[gregjrichards]

Mark Cross was a ferocious competitor when he played hockey, but the assistant coach for the Humboldt Broncos had a calming presence on his players, teammates and friends.

"Mark was an incredibly hard worker. He was extremely bright. He was one of the most caring kids you would ever meet," said Broncos president Kevin Garinger, who has known Cross since he was a boy.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/funeral-held-humboldt-broncos-assistant-coach-mark-cross/



May Mark Cross Rest In Peace

 

[gregjrichards]

Humboldt Broncos player Matthieu Gomercic was given a standing ovation when introduced and shown on the jumbotron at game 5 of the Winnipeg Jets playoff series against the Wild.

The crowd rose to their feet and cheered after the P.A. announcer asked the audience to “please give a warm welcome to Matthieu Gomercic and his family.” Gomercic is 20 years old, a Winnipeg native and was one of the survivors of the bus crash that took the lives of 16 people – including several Humboldt Broncos players – just two weeks ago.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4159065/humboldt-broncos-matthieu-gomercic-winnipeg-jets/

I hope Matthieu and all the survivors are managing to cope as well as they can.

 

[tarabull]

Mural Honors Humboldt

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/224299/Mural-honours-Humboldt

 

[gregjrichards]

Humboldt Broncos
@HumboldtBroncos
Mark Cross - #HumboldtBroncos Assistant Coach…

Simply special, vibrant, the heart and soul of the team, amazing mentor, commanded respect, led by example, down to earth, crazy in love, a give you the shirt off his back kind of guy.

Together, we are #Humboldtstrong.

 

[tarabull]

Counselling key to healing in bus crash aftermath
- 2 hrs ago

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/bron...-to-healing-in-bus-crash-aftermath/ar-AAwbK51

List of Resources: http://psychsask.ca/?page=Events&id=56

#HumboldtStrong

 

[gregjrichards]

The Saskatchewan Health Authority says the final two Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims listed as in critical condition have been upgraded to serious condition.

The health authority says this means their injuries are no longer considered to be life-threatening.

Sixteen people were killed and another 13 injured when team’s bus collided with a semi-truck on Highway 35 on April 6.


https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/humbol...graded-from-critical-to-serious-sha-1.3898157

Thank goodness. Still praying for them.

 

[missy1974]

This showed up on my twitter feed tonight... http://www.fnnews.ca/2018/04/18/angels-earth-air/

On Friday afternoon April 6th, shortly before 5:00 pm, Vivian York was returning from an appointment in Nipawin to her farm home near the junction of Hwys 35 and 335 in north central Saskatchewan. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), who works at the nursing care home in Nipawin and who previously worked in active treatment at Whitecourt General Hospital for 10 years, had seen a few traumas but none of that could have prepared her for what she was about to face.


It made me cry. Today, we had another tragedy in Toronto, and I feel like I'm not over this one yet So sad.

 

[gregjrichards]

This showed up on my twitter feed tonight... http://www.fnnews.ca/2018/04/18/angels-earth-air/

On Friday afternoon April 6th, shortly before 5:00 pm, Vivian York was returning from an appointment in Nipawin to her farm home near the junction of Hwys 35 and 335 in north central Saskatchewan. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), who works at the nursing care home in Nipawin and who previously worked in active treatment at Whitecourt General Hospital for 10 years, had seen a few traumas but none of that could have prepared her for what she was about to face.


It made me cry. Today, we had another tragedy in Toronto, and I feel like I'm not over this one yet So sad.

This tragedy is still affecting me too I am thinking about how Ryan is coping being paralysed a lot. It is very hard adjusting to a having a disability so young. I am so sorry for the tragedy Canada suffered yesterday.

 

[ldlager]

This showed up on my twitter feed tonight... http://www.fnnews.ca/2018/04/18/angels-earth-air/

On Friday afternoon April 6th, shortly before 5:00 pm, Vivian York was returning from an appointment in Nipawin to her farm home near the junction of Hwys 35 and 335 in north central Saskatchewan. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), who works at the nursing care home in Nipawin and who previously worked in active treatment at Whitecourt General Hospital for 10 years, had seen a few traumas but none of that could have prepared her for what she was about to face.


It made me cry. Today, we had another tragedy in Toronto, and I feel like I'm not over this one yet So sad.

The article indicates that there were a lot of vehicles passing through that intersection around that time. If so, I am certain there were witnesses to the collision, and I hope LE is able to locate and interview them ASAP while their memories are clear.

 

[will4u]

This tragedy is still affecting me too

i am not trying to down play this event as it was very serious, but there are bus crashes like this all the time all over the world,

here is just another random example, that happened only a few days before humboldt, with almost the same amount of fatalities,

https://wtop.com/middle-east/2018/04/kuwait-bus-crash-kills-15-indians-egyptians-and-pakistanis/

this is really a serious question out of curiousity,

why don't tragedies like this one get as much support, news and media coverage as the humboldt crash did? is it just because they were a team and were young?

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

i am not trying to down play this event as it was very serious, but there are bus crashes like this all the time all over the world,

here is just another random example, that happened only a few days before humboldt, with almost the same amount of fatalities,

https://wtop.com/middle-east/2018/04/kuwait-bus-crash-kills-15-indians-egyptians-and-pakistanis/

this is really a serious question out of curiousity,

why don't tragedies like this one get as much support, news and media coverage as the humboldt crash did? is it just because they were a team and were young?

O/T

my guess is that the Canadian story got a lot of interest here because there are many Canadians on WS (and we members bring the stories here, not the admins)... I don't recall ever seeing anyone here from Pakistan or Kuwait... so unless MSM (MSM = mainstream media) reports on it here in the states, few of us would be in the know. So it's not WS, it's MSM IMO. If it's not covered generally, then most of us may not ever hear about stories like that.

I suggest starting a thread for that other bus crash. I agree that it should garner as much support and compassion and the Humboldt tragedy.

I have often complained at the lack of interest from MSM when young black women or men go missing. Coverage in those cases seems to pale in comparison to cases where the missing is white, female, "pretty," so I get your frustration.

 

[gregjrichards]

i am not trying to down play this event as it was very serious, but there are bus crashes like this all the time all over the world,

here is just another random example, that happened only a few days before humboldt,

https://wtop.com/middle-east/2018/04/kuwait-bus-crash-kills-15-indians-egyptians-and-pakistanis/

why don't tragedies like this one get as much news and media coverage as this hockey crash? is it just because they were a team and were young?

Media coverage has a big part of it I didn’t even know this tragedy had happened. Hockey is also very big in Canada and the community rallied behind the cause. It’s especially affected me because I know what it is like to be young and have your life change forever in an instant due to having a disability you never could have imagined happening. My heart breaks for anyone having to go through that. My heart breaks for anyone that suffers a tragedy no matter where they are in the world.