Carberry, Man. community rocked by fatal bus crash, demands better road conditions
The community of Carberry, Man. has been rocked after 15 people were killed and 10 hospitalized when a semi-truck and a passenger bus collided on Thursday. It happened at the highway’s intersection with Highway 5 near the town of Carberry, and residents are saying the road conditions there are unacceptable.
This is not the first crash this intersection has had according to the province, there were 29 collisions from 2012 to 2021 which included 12 that resulted in injuries and 1 fatality. Of these 29 collisions, 7 are listed as collisions with animals and 22 are listed as collisions with a motor vehicle.
“The posted speed limit on both PTH 5 and the Trans-Canada at this intersection would be 100km/h. There was one fatality at the intersection of PTH 1 and PTH 5 from 2012 to 2023 ,” said a provincial spokesperson. Ralph Merrick is the father-in-law of Christopher Patzer a 24-year-old who was the lone fatality recorded in the stats above.“He had his whole life in front of him and then gone in just a few seconds right there at that intersection,” he said.I just happened to go by there 15 minutes after the accident occurred, I saw everything, all the debris, everything that was on a highway and it just tore me up because that’s the same place my son-in-law passed away the same way,” he added.
Merrick drove a truck professionally for nearly four years and he said after that accident his perspective on intersections changed. “There’s plenty of those intersections all across Canada where you have to slow down to 80 clicks an hour, really slow down,” he said he always thought that was a hindrance to slow all the way down but now he understands why.
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