Report examining safety at site of deadly southwestern Manitoba bus crash to be released today
Officials will provide details Monday afternoon about the findings of a road safety strategy report on a southwestern Manitoba highway intersection where a crash killed 17 peo‐ ple on a casino bus trip in summer.
Safety at the intersection of Highway 5 and the TransCanada Highway near the town of Carberry, Man., was studied after the deadly colli‐ sion between a semi-trailer truck and the bus full of se‐ niors on a day trip in June 2023.
The crash killed 17 people and injured nine others.
CBC News will livestream the news conference about the safety report at 1 p.m. CT.
RCMP previously said the bus carrying the seniors was going south on Highway 5 and crossing the eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway when it was hit by a semi-trailer truck.
Mounties said they'd con‐ firmed the semi had the right of way after reviewing dash‐ cam footage from the larger vehicle.
The posted speed limit on both highways at the inter‐ section where the crash hap‐ pened is 100 km/h.
The intersection is sur‐ rounded by fields just north of Carberry, a small south‐ western Manitoba town about 160 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
The bus involved in the crash had 25 people on it — 19 women and six men — ranging in age from 58 to 88.
Quality Care Transit, which launched in 2022, was the op‐ erator of the seniors' 24-seat bus, which left the Dauphin Active Living Centre the morning of the crash.
The company's co-owner was the driver of the vehicle, which was en route to the Sand Hills Casino near Carber‐ ry, about 150 kilometres south of the city of Dauphin.
Seniors and community members from Dauphin, which has a population of about 8,000, often go on bus trips to nearby events and casinos, an official with the ac‐ tive living centre said at the time.