B.C. highway crash involving bus leaves 1 dead, 13 injured

A 71-year-old Abbotsford man is dead and 13 others are injured after a semi-trailer truck collided with a passenger bus in northeastern B.C. Saturday afternoon, according to RCMP. Mounties from the McBride detachment responded to the crash on Highway 16 just before 1:30 p.m. Police say both vehicles caught fire and that the man driving the truck died at the scene near the Alberta border. They say 13 people from the bus, including the driver, were taken to hospital with injuries ranging from mino