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Humboldt Broncos bus crash

On April 6, 2018, 16 people were killed and 13 were injured when a northbound coach bus was struck by a westbound semi-trailer truck that blew through a stop sign near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the truck had failed to stop at a flashing stop sign at the intersection of Saskatchewan Highways 35 and 335 while driving at a speed of approximately 100 km/h (60 mph). Most of the deceased and injured were players from the Humboldt Broncos, a junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, which plays in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL).

Background
Saskatchewan Highways 35 and 335 meet at a right-angle intersection near the village of Armley in the Rural Municipality of Connaught. The intersection is commonly known as "Armley Corner." Traffic on Highway 35, running north–south, has the right of way at the intersection and a speed limit of . Traffic on Highway 335, both westbound and eastbound, has a speed limit of 100 km/h dropping to at the intersection, which has stop signs with flashing red lights. The signal lights were installed after a fatal traffic collision at the same intersection in 1997, in which six members of a family from British Columbia were killed. Six memorial crosses in the intersection's southeast corner commemorate those deaths. The coroner's report on the 1997 accident suggested "additional warning device approaching Highway 35 from the west, which could include rumble strips," but this was not implemented since the last crash had occurred in 1988. From 2011 to 2015, Saskatchewan had 13.2 traffic deaths per 100,000 people, the highest rate of any province or territory in Canada and over double the national average. == Crash ==
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