Site of deadly Saskatchewan hockey bus crash also scene of crash that killed six
CARROT RIVER, Sask. — A remote Saskatchewan intersection where a junior hockey team bus crashed on Friday was already a scene of tragedy for a family that lost six of its members in a collision two decades ago.
Dylan Fiddler, who was just six at the time, lost his mother, aunt, uncle and three young cousins when the vehicle they were in collided with a semi on Highway 35 where it meets a secondary highway at a spot known as Armley Corner.
“It hit home maybe more than others can imagine,” Fiddler said about the crash that killed 15 people who were on the Humboldt Broncos team bus when it collided with a truck hauling peat moss.
White wooden crosses — three larger ones and three smaller ones — still stand near the southeast ditch near a copse of trees, only metres away from where the wreckage of the bus and the semi were left lying on their sides.