20 injured after bus leaves Highway 39 near Mackenzie

A bus carrying 20 people left Highway 39 south of Mackenzie, British Columbia, on November 4, sending multiple patients to hospital and prompting a full highway closure, police said. Injuries ranged from minor to serious, and police said the cause had not been determined. Mackenzie RCMP said officers were called at about 9:10 a.m. to a single-vehicle collision roughly four kilometres south of the community. The bus was found down an embankment. Emergency responders, including police, fire crews and BC Emergency Health Services, attended the scene, and collision analysts were requested. BC Emergency Health Services said one patient in serious condition was taken directly to hospital by air ambulance. Six others were transported by ground ambulance to a hospital and then transferred by air to another facility. Of those six, two were in serious condition and four were in serious but stable condition, the service said. Another 13 patients in stable condition were taken by bus to hospital with advanced care paramedics. The crash led Mackenzie and District Hospital to declare a Code Orange, a designation used for a mass-casualty event. A second hospital in the area also declared a...