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One person was transported to the hospital in critical condition after a collision involving a bus and a car on the Sea-to-Sky Highway between Squamish, B.C., and Whistler on Wednesday.
The Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Services (ICARS) was called to investigate.
ICARS is responsible for the forensic reconstruction of collisions that result in serious injury or death between Pemberton and Boston Bar.
Paramedics were called to the collision involving a bus and car at 3:23 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2025. (Justine Simmons)
BCEHS information officer Brian Twaites said three ambulances with primary care paramedics, an advanced care paramedic response unit and a paramedic supervisor attended the scene.
“Paramedics provided emergency medical care and transported one patient to meet another ground ambulance with critical care paramedics who then took over care and transported the patient to the hospital in critical condition,” Twaites said.
Sea to Sky RCMP Cpl. Katrina Boehmer said the details of injuries sustained were unknown as of Wednesday afternoon.
First responders headed to the crash involving a bus and a car on Highway 99 between Alice Lake Road and Daisy Lake Road (Justine Simmons)
“The [highway] is currently closed in both directions, and could likely remain closed for several hours,” said Boehmer.
DriveBC said the incident occurred six kilometres north of Squamish near Conroy Forest Service Road and that both directions were closed as of 3:30 p.m. PT.
Just before 6:30 p.m. PT, the stretch reopened to single-lane alternating traffic — though drivers were warned of delays due to congestion.
Whistler resident Megan Foster was travelling with her husband on Highway 99 and drove by the crash scene.
“We saw that there was a vehicle that had been completely destroyed. It was totalled on the side and in the front, that was all caved in,” she said.
Foster said there were a few people standing near the vehicle and others were collecting debris off the road.
“We continued heading northbound where we saw the passenger Skyline bus that was on the right-hand side, heading northbound, and that looked like it had some serious impact on the front and the left-hand side of the bus,” Foster said.
Conditions on the road were slippery with fresh snow, she recalls.
“The engine of the vehicle was completely removed from the car, and it was about 20 metres up the road, and it was actually still smoking when the snow was hitting it,” Foster said.