A former Humboldt Bronco hockey player has filed a $13.5-million lawsuit against those he accuses of being responsible for the 2018 bus crash that paralyzed him and killed 16 others. The truck driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidu, was found responsible and was sentenced to eight years in prison last year. However, there was no way the bus driver could avoid the collision." Families and their supporters launched a petition to change that, and truck driver training was scheduled to become mandatory across the country this year. Ongoing treatmentStraschnitzki previously told CBC News that before the crash, heard the bus driver say "whoa."

Source: CBC News March 28, 2020 01:41 UTC