Episode 207: The Humboldt Broncos bus crash
Disaster Area
Disaster Area
4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On April 6th, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team from Saskatchewan, Canada, were on their way to a playoff game in Nipawin. They weren't expecting the semi-tractor trailer headed westbound on Highway 335 - right into their path.
Videos:
- Humboldt: The New Season
- How the Humboldt bus crash happened
- Special coverage of the tragedy in Humboldt, Saskatchewan
- W5: Jaskirat Sidhu, the 'Humboldt Driver,' speaks about the tragedy
Articles and books:
- Agreed Statement of Facts - Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash
- Humboldt bus crash cause unknown as new details on truck and bus driving companies emerge
- Kingston man speaks to Humboldt crash intersection, where he lost his family 20 years ago
- Humboldt Broncos crash: What the RCMP forensics team found
- Humboldt presented E.J. McGuire Award of Excellence
- Coroner apologizes after mistaking Humboldt Broncos victim; Xavier LaBelle is alive
- Sports Illustrated: The Valley of Darkness
- 'One of the darkest days in the history of Saskatchewan' as 15 die in bus crash
- Humboldt Broncos crash site is no stranger to tragedy
Transcript
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| 1:30.3 | Arrow pointed out that fashion at the time of the Bazaar de la Cherite fire |
| 1:34.1 | wouldn't have been quite as flammable as described in the previous episode unless |
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