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It takes a lot longer to accelerate, and a lot longer to slow down.ĭespite giant side view mirrors, there are still blind spots, he adds. The busdrives differently than other vehicles, he says. Westhouse says he knows all the grain bins, trees and dangerous intersections on the routes he takes multiple times each day. All passengers are required to wear seatbelts and wheelchairs are clipped in to the floor. And before each trip, drivers check around the vehicle to ensure it's in good condition. Westhouse says they get a safety check every year. There's the 12-passenger bus, an older 15-passenger bus and a wheelchair-accessible minivan. Quality Care Transit in Dauphin owned the bus involved in the crash. RCMP are to release the names of the victims on Thursday. He hasn't heard yet if she was killed or survived. She had just bought new furniture for her home and was excited for the delivery on Monday, he says. Westhouse knows one woman who was on the bus that crashed. He smiles while talking about a regular passenger, a woman in her 90s who's fiercely funny and visits her husband in a nearby care home.Īnother passenger, a younger woman who uses a wheelchair, calls him grandpa. His current job with Grand Plains Handivan sees him transport seniors and people with disabilities from Grandview and Gilbert Plains about 50 kilometres east to Dauphin for medical and dental appointments, grocery shopping and visits with family and friends. Westhouse has been driving minibuses and other passenger vehicles for years, after retiring from his career as a welder. 'Being familiar with that corner, it's a dangerous corner,' says Westhouse, shaking his head. Health officials have said 10 others on the bus, including the driver, were in hospital. The bus was heading south on Highway 5, carrying a group of seniors from Dauphin and the surrounding area to a casino Thursday, when it crossed the Trans-Canada Highway and went into the path of the truck near the town of Carberry, some 190 kilometres to the south.

He says he's been thinking a lot about another minibus, not much larger than the one he drives, that crashed with a semi last week on the same road. The coordinator and driver for Grand Plains Handivan in Grandview, Man., slows the hefty vehicle down as an oncoming semi-trailer truck passes by on Highway 5. Doug Westhouse sits straight behind the wheel of a 12-passenger bus driving along a rural Manitoba highway waiting for the next call for a ride.

Instal the new version for mac City Car Driver Bus Driver