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1997 Les Éboulements bus accident
The 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, also known as the St. Joseph Bus Accident, occurred on Thanksgiving Day, October 13, 1997, in Les Éboulements (St-Joseph-de-la-Rive), Quebec, Canada. 44 died as a result of the accident, making it the deadliest road accident in Canadian history.〔(History Television: Disasters of the Century V )〕
==Accident==
The bus, carrying members of a Golden Age Club on an overnight leaf peeping trip, had traveled on Quebec Highways 138 and 362 from Saint-Bernard-de-Beauce headed for the Île aux Coudres. It was traveling down Côte des Éboulements, which had a steep hill with a sharp right turn at the base. The time was 1:45 pm, and the roads were dry and clear. The driver, André Desruisseaux, was unable to slow the bus to negotiate the curve, and the bus collided with the guardrail, smashed through it and plunged over 10 meters into a ravine. It landed, slid on its right side and came to rest beside an elevated railway line. The crash and fall slammed the occupants violently around the interior of the vehicle, injuring most of them fatally. No skid marks were found on the road at the site of the crash, leading authorities to immediately suspect brake failure. Witnesses also reported the smell of burning brake fluid coming from the bus.〔(CBC:Witness tells bus inquiry of burning brakes )〕
There were 48 people aboard the bus, including the driver. Five survived the crash initially,〔(Bus carrying senior citizens plunges into ravine, CJ Online )〕 however one of them succumbed to their injuries a month later.〔(Millénaire )〕 All the victims were senior citizens from the small village of Saint-Bernard-de-Beauce, except for the 29-year-old bus driver, who was from Sherbrooke.〔(milestonesoct13 )〕
A similar accident had occurred in 1974 at the very same spot and had resulted in 15 deaths. Given the context, many were angry that nothing had been done to make the road safer since that time.
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