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NRI truck driver charged with dangerous driving causing death

Edmonton, Nov. 30, 2005
Ashok Verma

NRI, Inderjit Singh Virk, 31, of Brampton, Ont., is charged with dangerous driving causing deadly bus crash north of Edmonton that killed six people and 21 people were injured. He also faces 21 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

The bus driver had been trying to turn around because the highway was blocked at the time by another accident. As it tried to turn, it became stuck on the soft shoulders of the road and could not move. Some passengers had got off the bus and standing nearby. The tractor-trailer strck the bus and strike the people.

The driver was a woman in her 50s who had been driving buses for about five years. The dead men were William Carl Ingram, 53, John Daniel Hernon, 54, and Steve Raymond Wallis, 42 all from Edmonton, and 56-year-old Stephen Joseph Batherson, from North Sydney, N.S. Hugh Kiernan, 65, of Edmonton and Andrezay Daszuta, 47, of Edmonton.

RCMP are calling a complex investigation following a seven-month investigation, charges in the deadly Diversified bus crash near Edmonton were laid against the truck driver involved in the incident. We had to wait for lab results and expert opinion,” he said.
In August, the investigative team ruled out mechanical failure for both the bus and the truck. They also found that impaired driving was not a factor in the collision.


Opinions:

In addition, The RCMP had just left there. Why didn't the dumbazz put out flares ? Instead, he just returned to the accident scene about a 1/2 Km ahead of the bus.

I've travelled the exact spot many times.

They had the driver handcuffed for his court appreance in Edmonton until bail was paid.

The bus driver was a female who was intimidated by 45 male passengers probably some of them pissed coming home from Ft./ MacMurray on days off.

They were tired of waiting and told her to turn around. Why didn;t one of them walk back towards the cress of the incline and flag down traffic


I hope the driver gets off and it's time they laid a charge against the bus driver for endangering endangering lives of passengers......Pipeman


The account in Tuesday's paper tells to what lengths the RCMP went to investigate the collision.
They got an engineering firm to determine how fast the truck was going and at what time the driver applied the brakes.
They consulted a doctor who is a "perception specialist" to tell when he should've seen and recognised the hazard ahead.
Thousands of pages of findings and statements were given to the Crown Attorney to lay the charges.

Yet, no charges are being laid against anyone else.
How can the bus driver not be charged when:
(and I quote)
The back end of the bus became lodged on the shoulder and in the grassy ditch.
The bus driver, who had a bout 6 years experience, had not followed proper procedures, such as placing reflective markers or flares on the road after getting stuck.
Does this not sound like a case of:
HANG THE TRUCK DRIVER.

I hope he gets a good lawyer......Rob Archer


 

 



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