Two women in their 20s, one from Alberta, one from Saskatchewan, and a man in his 50s from India have been identified as the three people killed Saturday when a tour bus rolled on the Columbia Icefield, RCMP said Monday.
Two women in their 20s, one from Alberta, one from Saskatchewan, and a man in his 50s from India, have been identified as the people killed Saturday when a tour bus rolled on the Columbia Icefield between Jasper and Banff, Alta., RCMP said Monday.
Jasper RCMP said the victims were a 28-year-old woman from Edmonton, a 24-year-old woman from Canoe Narrows, Sask., and a 58-year-old man from India. They said next of kin have been notified and the names of the victims will not be released.
There were 27 people on the bus, according to an RCMP statement. Of those injured in the crash, the statement said four remained in critical but stable condition and one was in serious but stable condition as of late Sunday.
CBC News confirmed on Monday that Dionne Jocelyn Durocher was the woman from Saskatchewan who died, after speaking to Durocher’s boyfriend, Devon Ernest.
Durocher lived in North Battleford, but was originally from Canoe Lake. She was on vacation with Ernest and on their last day of travelling when the crash happened.
The cause of the rollover is still unknown, RCMP said, adding that a collision reconstructionist has confirmed there is no evidence that a rock slide caused it. They said the bus, called an Ice Explorer, will receive a full mechanical inspection.
The red and white big-wheeled buses regularly take tourists up a rough, rocky road onto the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park.
The bus rolled off the road to the glacier Saturday afternoon, slid about 50 metres down a steep embankment and came to rest near the glacier on a rocky slope, its six huge tires pointed up at the sky.
The RCMP said they were trying to remove the Ice Explorer from where it landed, but that it may take severa