Highway Safety

The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has applied to have his permanent resident status returned. The Immigration and Refugee Board issued a deportation order in May for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu and his permanent resident status was revoked. Sidhu is from India and arrived in Canada in 2014. In 2018, while […]

The year that has passed since a bus crash killed 17 seniors headed to a Manitoba casino on a bright late-spring day has been one of grief, community support, a slow return to normal and, for some, a long road to recovery. It has also left unanswered questions about the genesis of the horrific crash […]

Lawyers for several Humboldt Broncos families were in court Tuesday fighting a bid by the government of Saskatchewan to have it removed as a defendant in a lawsuit over the deadly bus crash in 2018.  The five hockey families are suing over the crash, alleging the province knew the rural intersection where the crash happened had problems […]

Victim impact statements have been read at the sentencing hearing for a man who ran over and killed a Saskatchewan RCMP officer more than two years ago.  Melanie Patton, the mother of Const. Shelby Patton, told court today she has been gutted after losing her only son. Alphonse Stanley Traverse pleaded guilty last year to […]

The fall season is in full swing, and the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation is urging drivers to look out for animals on the road. Executive Director of the SWF Darrell Crabbe says autumn is mating season for moose, elk, and deer, and they are far less concerned about highway traffic when they are preoccupied with finding […]

A sad ending to a search for a missing man came yesterday. 60 year old Jack Crouch was traveling along highway 15 earlier this week when a winter storm picked up and left him stranded between Watrous and Kenaston. Crouch was found dead after a civil air search and rescue plane assisted the RCMP. The […]

As harvest gets underway, SGI is reminding you to watch out for slow farm vehicles on grid roads, and the occassional highway. SGI’s Tyler McMurchy says in the past five years there has been 86 crashes involving farm equipment on Saskatchewan roads, resulting in 41 people being hurt, and seven people being killed. McMurchy says […]