RCMP say a 17th victim died Sunday from injuries sustained in a buscrash west of Winnipeg—a 79-year-old woman who had been in hospital since the collision just over a month ago.
Seniors from Dauphin, Man., were on a minibus taking a day trip to the Sand Hills Casino, 190 kilometres south, when the fiery crash occurred on June 15.
They were just minutes from the casino when, according to dashcam footage viewed by police, the bus drove into the path of a transport truck heading east on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Fifteen people on the bus died that day and another died in hospital the following week….