Deadly Carberry, Manitoba bus crash echoes Humboldt Broncos tragedy
It’s an easy figure to get lost in. But the Broncos’ crash showed us that we can’t forget the little numbers that make it so big. There was a one there, on the bus, heading to that casino and to that hockey game. And a two. A three. A four. A five. A six.
, who — in the seconds before he died — pulled his dress shirt and tie on, then flipped his fingers through hair he’d died blond as part of a team playoff ritual.Article content The next morning, his father Chris pulled those socks off his boy’s feet after identifying Jaxon’s body. He came up with the idea after watching a mother leave that same place with a lock of her son’s hair.“It’s like a safety blanket, a comfort blanket for me,” he told reporters nearly a year later, after making a victim-impact statement at the sentencing of truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu.
“I feel so sorry for some of the local students who are here,” said longtime Humboldt resident Tim Klimosko, looking over at a table of red-eyed teens. “They went to school with them this morning. And guess what? They won’t be at school on Monday. That’s the terrible thing about this.”Article content
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