“We want to answer the question of why the truck was in the intersection,” Saskatchewan RCMP commanding officer Curtis Zablocki told a press conference. Crackdown on inexperienced driversOn Thursday, RCMP confirmed that the semi-truck which collided with the Humboldt Broncos team bus was in an intersection when it shouldn’t have been. The coach was driven into a rigid barrier at 48 km/h, much slower than the speed at which the Humboldt Broncos bus was likely travelling in its final moments (the posted speed limit on Highway 35 was 100 km/h). Large parts of the Humboldt Broncos bus was destroyed in the crash, making seatbelts irrelevant. At Armley Corner, however, the tree cover on the right would have hid the semi-truck until the last moments.

Source: National Post April 20, 2018 19:05 UTC