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Grand bucket list: A group of 20 friends checked a major item off their to-do lists this month, completing a long-awaited trek into – and out of – the Grand Canyon. › see page A11
A northbound 351 bus and a truck with a camper that was pulling a trailer went off Highway 99 Sunday afternoon. Below, a log is used as a makeshift bridge to assist passengers off the bus.
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Passengers thankful for quick response from Good Samaritans after dramatic freeway collision
‘I thought we were dead’ – bus rider Tracy Holmes Staff reporter
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A crash that sent a TransLink bus and a camper pulling a trailer into a ditch off Highway 99 Sunday was “probably the most scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life,” one passenger reported. Kristina Henderson told Peace Arch News she was on a northbound 351 Sunday afternoon when it went off the road around 3:30 p.m. “We were going quite fast, and then there was a trailer beside us,” the White Rock resident said Monday, of the mo-
ments prior to the crash. “(The bus driver) slammed on his horn because this trailer was kind of drifting into our lane. “Before you knew it, we were just kind of sandwiched together. I hit the floor. I went to the ground and just kind of covered my head. “I thought we were dead.” No injuries were reported in the crash, which occurred about one kilometre south of Highway 91, near the trestle bridge. TransLink senior media relations adviser Chris Bryan said preliminary reports indicate the camper and trailer “suddenly
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