Twenty people were injured when a shuttle bus chartered by a contractor for a data centre company veered off a highway in northern B.C., prompting two area hospitals to declare Code Orange protocols to manage the influx of patients.
The scene near Mackenzie, B.C., was “chaotic” as air and ground ambulances rushed people to hospital with injuries ranging from minor to serious, BC Highway Patrol said in a statement.
Officers responded to the remote location shortly after 9 a.m. local time on Nov. 4, following reports of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 39.
The bus was discovered at the bottom of an embankment roughly four kilometres south of Mackenzie, more than 160 kilometres north of Prince George, police said….