With safety upgrade recommendations for the site of Manitoba's deadliest crash set to be announced this week, CBC has learned the province studied the intersection nearly 20 years ago and chose not to fix a significant highlighted issue because of the cost.
With safety upgrade recommendations for the site of Manitoba's deadliest crash set to be announced this week, CBC has learned the province studied the intersection nearly 20 years ago and chose not to fix a significant highlighted issue because of the cost.The intersection of Highway 5 and Highway 1 in southwestern Manitoba is shown in a June 2023 photo, after a bus crash that killed 17 people.
"It's really heartbreaking that they've known this long and basically waited until there was a tragic accident two years ago to actually step up and do anything," said Jordan Dickson, whose home is just down the road from where the collision took place. The report didn't identify any single specific factor that contributed to the reported collisions, but there were "a number of items that may have contributed to an imperfect driving environment, thus leading to some of the events of concern," the engineer wrote.
That option would eliminate direct left turns from the Trans-Canada and going directly north-south on Highway 5. Instead, drivers would make merges and U-turns to get where they're going.A restricted crossing U-turn, also known as an RCUT, is one of three options being explored to overhaul a highway intersection near Carberry, Man., where a crash killed 17 people and injured eight others in June.
The southwestern Manitoba area is home to many potato farmers, she said, which means during harvest, hundreds of semi-trucks cross the intersection daily to get to the McCain potato processing plant in Carberry. Olmstead said the median is narrow because the intersection was designed decades ago with the idea of an overpass being built in the future.
"The safety deficiencies at this intersection have been known for a long period of time, but there hasn't been really an attempt to correct these."
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