OTTAWA — A glacier tour bus rolled over in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta on Saturday afternoon, injuring several passengers, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The police said in a statement that emergency workers from a variety of agencies were descending on the scene of a “motor coach rollover” near the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park. Tanya Otis, a spokeswoman for Pursuit, the company that operates tours of the ice fields, said the incident involved one of its special, all-terrain buses that ferry visitors onto the glacier. She had no further information about what caused the accident which took place on a steep, unpaved service road used to reach the glacier. A photograph from a bystander posted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed the red and white bus badly damaged, on its roof and well down the embankment from the road.

Source: International New York Times July 19, 2020 01:07 UTC