Police say 20 hurt in B.C. bus crash with injuries ranging from minor to serious

Police say 20 people were hurt when a shuttle bus chartered by a contractor for a data centre company went off the highway near Mackenzie, B.C.

A statement from the RCMP describes the remote scene as “chaotic” and says the injuries range from minor to serious with air and ground ambulances being used to get the injured to hospital.

Police say they were called Wednesday around 9:10 a.m. about a single-vehicle collision on Highway 39 about four kilometres south of Mackenzie and found a northbound shuttle bus down an embankment.

A complete shutdown of the highway was required and two hospitals in the area declared a Code Orange, which is typically used to designate a mass casualty event.