Two Killed In Crash Of Tour Bus, Truck

GOLDEN, B.C. - Two people are dead after a collision between a tour bus carrying a dance troupe and a truck carrying steel pipes.

The identity of one victim, a young girl, was not released pending notification of her family. A second victim, Tammy Lynn Powers, 16, died at a Calgary, Alberta, hospital, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Nine passengers, including one adult, were transported to Calgary for treatment after the accident early Wednesday.

Another 16 people from the bus and the truck driver were treated and released.

``I feel drained, just kind of dazed,'' said Paul de Boer, 18, late Wednesday. De Boer, a member of Calgary's Artistique Performing Arts Company, was one of 28 people, mostly children ages 9 to 18, aboard the bus. Many of them could see the semi swing around a corner and plow down a hill toward their bus, bound for a festival in Penticton, B.C.

``He (the truck driver) was going outside the yellow line,'' de Boer said.

The truck was hauling 25 bundles of 40-foot-long steel gas pipes. According to one witness, at least one bundle plunged into the front of the bus and through to the back.