Tragedy for the Humboldt Broncos

[Ralph Baer]

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A year ago today.

a second year.

April 6, 2018 is a day the Humboldt Broncos organization, along with the hockey world, will never forget.

Today and every day, we remember and pay tribute to all 29.

Always in our thoughts and prayers.#onceabroncoalwaysabronco pic.twitter.com/TmLtbJ9zLP

— Humboldt Broncos (@HumboldtBroncos) April 6, 2020

[northeastern]

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Cross posting, but at least something good came out of this:

Here’s some great news. Brayden Camrud of the @HumboldtBroncos has accepted a scholarship offer from @UAASeawolves. Brayden will begin his @NCAAIceHockey career in the fall. Congrats to Brayden. An exciting offensive player and a great young man. 👍 💚💛

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) April 26, 2019

nice! good for him.

[Jimjamesak]

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Cross posting, but at least something good came out of this:

Here’s some great news. Brayden Camrud of the @HumboldtBroncos has accepted a scholarship offer from @UAASeawolves. Brayden will begin his @NCAAIceHockey career in the fall. Congrats to Brayden. An exciting offensive player and a great young man. 👍 💚💛

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) April 26, 2019

[icehawk]

A year ago today.

Had my stick out in front of the house in remembrance

[Ralph Baer]

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A year ago today.

[Ralph Baer]

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BREAKING | Truck driver who caused Humboldt Broncos bus crash receives 8-year sentence https://t.co/hAzNjSWCZz

— Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) March 22, 2019

[aparch]

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There is a flashing red light mounted atop the stop signs for the east/west road. SK-35 (N/S route) has right of way over the crossing county highway (E/W).

Google Maps

Upon re-looking at the aerial crash photo (crash scene was in N-W corner), I think it was a combination of both the truck driver not completely stopping (probably slowed, looked both ways, and kept going) and the bus driver not slowing in time (the front of the bus is where the impact was, and the trailers load is scattered as if the bus hit the center of the trailer). The momentum of the WB truck carried the collision into the NW quadrant of the intersection.

The truck driver is taking 100% of the blame because we'll never know what the bus driver did or didn't see.

[Hockeybuckeye]

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The semi driver pleaded guilty to all counts. He said he didn't want a trial to put the families through any more than they've already been through.
He seemed and looked pretty sorry but how much of the blame is his?
According to reports the stop sign was partially obscured by trees and this same intersection had a six person fatality back in '97 and should have been red flagged back then as exceptionally dangerous by the Saskatchewan highway department and given every safety upgrade as they became available so I see a major fail on Canada's part!
Why no stop light instead of just signs? Was anything changed after the 1997 fatalities? Don't they have annual inspections up there to make sure all signage is in place and unobscured?
At the least it should have been within the past several years upgraded to LED flashing stop signs which are powered by solar recharging battery packs.
Seems something really slipped through the cracks on this one!

[Ralph Baer]

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A near repeat
https://www.northernnews.ca/news/loc...s-bus-accident

[Ralph Baer]

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Humboldt Broncos reunite for first time since crash ahead of being honoured at #NHLAwards. MORE @ https://t.co/prLu0RGA8R #HumboldtStrong pic.twitter.com/owSJrTBC6Y

— BarDown (@BarDown) June 19, 2018

[Ralph Baer]

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2 days until they close the gofundme, per Humboldt Broncos president in statement today.

They are opening a separate fund to accept further donations beyond that, but the gofundme will be closed end of Wednesday.

Final total $15,185,700

[hockeyplayer1015]

The NHL isn't done yet. Most, if not every team has a signed Jersey with "Broncos" on the back that will be auctioned. Will that generate the $10 mil? Doubt it. But it's not done yet.

2 days until they close the gofundme, per Humboldt Broncos president in statement today.

They are opening a separate fund to accept further donations beyond that, but the gofundme will be closed end of Wednesday.

[pdt1081]

It is now the second largest. I doubt that it will make it to number one which it still trails by almost $10M.

The NHL isn't done yet. Most, if not every team has a signed Jersey with "Broncos" on the back that will be auctioned. Will that generate the $10 mil? Doubt it. But it's not done yet.

[Ralph Baer]

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It's closing in on the second largest GoFundMe effort which was last year's for Las Vegas shooting's victims, https://www.gofundme.com/dr2ks2-las-vegas-victims-fund

It is now the second largest. I doubt that it will make it to number one which it still trails by almost $10M.

[icehawk]

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Love this too
https://twitter.com/ginohard_/status/984459238318592001