Mounties say they've started interviewing survivors of deadly crash near Carberry, Man.
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Mounties say they've started interviewing survivors of a crash near Carberry, Man., that killed 15 people last week, when a bus taking a group of seniors to a casino was hit by a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection.
Investigators worked through the weekend, doing difficult interviews as part of a unique crash investigation in which the witnesses were involved in the collision, said Supt. Rob Lasson, officer in charge of Manitoba RCMP major crime services.
"All the witnesses were in the bus, and a lot of them are in trauma right now," Lasson said at a news conference on Monday. "Their brain has been impacted … so we have to give them time to process."
He would not reveal how many of the survivors police spoke to, and said the information investigators learned "can't be divulged at this time" because it's part of the investigation, which will determine whether anyone was at fault in the crash.
Mounties said last week that the bus carrying 25 people was going south on Highway 5, crossing the eastbound lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway, when it was hit by a semi just north of Carberry, a small town about 160 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
Most of the passengers were seniors from in and around the southwestern Manitoba city of Dauphin — which has a population of about 8,000 — on their way to the Sand Hills Casino near Carberry.
Police said they determined the semi had the right of way after reviewing its dashcam footage following the crash.
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Lasson said police have not yet spoken with the driver of the bus, who is still hospitalized. Mounties said last week that they had spoken with the semi driver, who had been released from hospital.
A mechanical analysis of both the semi and the bus are ongoing, Lasson said.
He doesn't expect to have accurate answers about exactly what happened for weeks or even months.
"Accuracy is paramount — something that will not be sacrificed in the name of expediency," he said.
Another news conference focused on the families affected is expected in the coming days, Lasson said.
One of the survivors of the crash was moved out of critical care and into a unit a step down within the past day, said Lanette Siragusa, chief executive officer of Shared Health, Manitoba's provincial health agency.
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