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CBC News British Columbia Bus carrying hockey team slides off BC highway News Sports Entertainment Radio TV My Region Member Centre Login Sign UpHalifax (Shearwater) Change City10c Tomorrow0c Snow and blowing snow CanadaHome World Canada BC Calgary Edmonton Saskatchewan Manitoba Thunder Bay Sudbury Windsor Toronto Ottawa Montreal NB PEI NS NL North Politics Health Arts & Entertainment Music Film Television Books Media Art & Design Theatre Technology & Science Money Consumer Life Diversions Weather Your Voice LICENSE EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Bus carrying hockey team slides off BC highwayLast Updated Friday December 11 2009 457 PM PT CBC News A bus that had been carrying a midget hockey team lies on its side near Williams Lake BC Friday (CBC)A chartered bus transporting a boys hockey team slid off a highway and fell on its side in northcentral BC on Friday afternoon but none of the 23 passengers suffered serious injuriesMost of those aboard the International Stage Lines bus were members of the Fraser Valley Bruins midget hockey team from AbbotsfordAbout 12 of the passengers required medical attention for injuries that ranged from a fractured collar bone to scrapes and bruisesAmbulances rushed to the scene on Highway 97 five kilometres south of Williams Lake and took many of the injured to an area hospital Police cars also pitched in to take the youths aged 15 to 17 to get medical attentionView Larger Map The team was en route to a game in Prince George when the mishap occurred just after 3 pm PTRoad conditions at the time were reported to be snowy and treacherous and early reports suggested the bus hit black ice and spun out onto the shoulder before flipping onto its sideWilliams Lake is about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver LICENSE EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK VideoRelatedInternal LinksYOUR VOICE Send us your bus crash photos videos or anecdotes British Columbia HeadlinesTop Headlines Recommended Commented Blaze consumes airport terminal in northern BC Fire crews are battling a massive blaze that broke out at the airport in Prince George BC on Saturday afternoon Quebec couple chose to ski out of bounds court documents Court documents filed in Vancouver say a Quebec couple made a deliberate choice to ski out of bounds at a British Columbia ski resort last February and cannot blame the police and others for the fatal consequences Man stabbed near UBC campus A man is recovering in hospital after being stabbed just blocks from the University of British Columbia campus early Saturday morning Russian fugitive says documents clear him A Russian man trying to avoid deportation is urging the federal government to look past his involvement in the KGB the former Soviet Unions feared secret police Vancouver Symphony says no t...