The Mounties say a dashboard camera from a tractor-trailer captured a tour bus rollover that injured dozens of people on a B.C. highway and it appears speed is not a factor.
RCMP Sgt. Brian Nightingale says that leaves mechanical problems or human error as possible causes.
The bus, which was operated by a Chinese tour company, rolled over about 30 kilometres south of Merritt, B.C., on Thursday afternoon, sending 43 people to hospital.
Nightingale says a tractor-trailer was travelling behind the bus when the accident happened and police have reviewed the dash-cam footage.
He says tire marks show the bus drifted into the grassy centre median of the highway, and he says the bus apparently veered out of control as the driver tried to correct its course.
Fifty-six people were aboard and Interior Health says five are critically injured, 10 have serious injuries and 28 have been treated at its facilities for non-life-threatening injuries such as cuts and bruises.
-- With files from the Canadian Press
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