Everything we know about the deadly southwestern Manitoba bus crash
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They'd left earlier that morning, getting on a bus for what was supposed to be a day trip to the casino.
But they never made it there.
Fifteen of the 25 people onboard a bus, mostly seniors, were killed after it was hit by a semi-trailer truck as the bus crossed a southwestern Manitoba highway intersection late Thursday morning.
Another 10 people on the bus were taken to hospital with serious injuries, RCMP said.
In the day since, the deadly crash has shaken people in the western Manitoba community the victims called home.
Here's what else we know so far about what happened — and what comes next.
The bus was going south on Highway 5 and crossing the eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway when it was hit by a semi-trailer truck, RCMP said.
Mounties said Friday they'd confirmed the semi had the right of way after reviewing dashcam footage from the larger vehicle.
Witness statements from passing motorists corroborated what police saw on the video, Supt. Rob Lasson, the Manitoba RCMP's officer in charge of major crime services, said at a news conference.
"We are not assigning culpability or laying any blame at this time," Lasson said. "We are merely stating the facts as we know them."
The posted speed limit on both highways at the intersection where the crash happened is 100 km/h.
The intersection where the two vehicles collided is surrounded by fields and located just north of Carberry, a small southwestern Manitoba town about 160 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
The bus involved in the crash had 25 people on it — 19 women and six men — ranging in age from 58 to 88, Lasson said Friday.
Fifteen of those people died and 10 were taken to hospital.
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