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. He's been thinking about a minibus that crashed ...

When Justin van Damme heard a bus full of seniors crashed on a Trans-Canada Highway intersection near Carberry, Man., last week it was like he was transported back in time.

When the bus crossed the Trans-Canada Highway into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer, it set on course a national highway tragedy: 17 people dead and eight injured, some severely.