Airlines' challenge of Canada's passenger protection rules rejected by Supreme Court
Canada's airlines have failed in their challenge of air passenger protection rules that the federal government implemented in 2019.
RCMP say 15 people died and 10 others were taken to hospital on Thursday after a bus collided with a semi-truck near Carberry, Man. Little information was immediately available about the deceased, but RCMP say they believe many of the people on the bus were seniors.
Here's a list of some other serious crashes involving buses and large vehicles on Canadian roads:
A bus travelling from Kelowna, B.C, to Vancouver on Christmas Eve rolled over on Highway 97C, known as the Okanagan Connector, leaving four people dead. Eight others were hospitalized. Police have said they suspect extremely icy road conditions played a role in the collision.
A semi-truck ran through a stop sign at a crossroads near the town, striking the coach bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team. Sixteen people on the bus were killed: 10 players, the team's coach, an assistant coach, trainer, radio play-by-play announcer, statistician and the bus driver. The truck driver went on to plead guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm.
A van carrying 13 migrant workers from South America ran a stop sign before it was broadsided by a truck in a rural community northeast of Stratford, Ont. Eleven people died as a result of the crash. Two of the workers survived, as did all three people in the flatbed truck.
A van carrying members of the Bathurst High School basketball team crossed the centre line on an icy highway and collided with an oncoming transport truck. Seven team members and the coach's wife were killed.
Eight toddlers died after the driver of a day-care minivan lost control of her vehicle and crashed into another van. The woman, whose son was among the dead, had been on her way to a pickup point where a bus would take the 10 tots to a sugar shack. A police report found some of the children were not wearing seat-belts properly, but prosecutors opted not to lay charges, saying the crash itself was not a result of negligence.
A bus carrying members of a seniors club missed a hair-pin turn at the foot of a steep hill and crashed into a ravine in Les Eboulements, Que., about 110 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. Forty-three seniors and the driver died.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 15, 2023.
Canada's airlines have failed in their challenge of air passenger protection rules that the federal government implemented in 2019.
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