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Canada Flag VIDEO:Humboldt Fatal Bus Crash >Sentencing Hearing Begins

HORRIFIC Bus Crash Causes 15 Deaths, & More Injured From Canadian Humboldt Broncos Hockey Team Players

Humboldt Broncos Donations Among 5 Highest-Ever GoFundMe Campaigns

Chelsea Laskowski · CBC News · Posted: 9 Apr 2018





Caitlin Hergott, left, and Sylvie Kellington started the huge GoFundMe campaign. (Jennifer Barr/CBC)



Donations stemming from the heartbreak of 15 deaths in the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash have propelled a fund for the players' families into GoFundMe's top five largest global campaigns.


The money, $7.3 million ($5.8 million US) and counting, comes from 65 countries, according to GoFundMe's PR agency in Canada, North Strategic.

No other Canadian campaigns have ever raised more money than the "Funds for Humboldt Broncos" campaign, which is for the families of a team that lost more than half of its players, on Friday when the bus was headed to a playoff game and collided with a semi-trailer.

Twelve who were on the bus during the crash are still in hospital, four of them in critical condition, four with significant injuries, and four in stable condition.





Humboldt hockey mom Sylvia Kellington started the campaign. She said immediate matters like funeral costs are only part of what she expects the victims' families to spend the money on.


"I know there will probably be rehab costs and home renovations that need to be done for some of the players and, I mean, I don't know exactly where that will end," she said.

She also said it would be nice to create a foundation to support all 12 teams in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.

Four other GoFundMe campaigns for families of the injured and deceased Broncos players and personnel have since been created.



The campaign for the family of the Deceased Head Coach
Darcy Haugan is above $48,000, the one for Assistant Coach Mark Cross is above $1,500, and that for injured player Ryan Straschnitzki is above $7,000.


Special Coverage of The Tragedy in Humboldt, Saskatchewan Canada

15 people are dead after a junior hockey team's bus crashed Friday evening. 29 people were on board. It was carrying the Humboldt Broncos' junior team. They were travelling on a highway north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan when the bus collided with a semi-trailer.






Victims of Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash Identified

12 patients still in hospital, 4 of them in critical condition

CBC News · Posted: 9 April





The Humboldt Broncos' player range in age from 16 to 21 years. They were on a road trip that was scheduled to take just over two hours, heading to a playoff game in Nipawin, when the bus they were in and a transport truck collided Friday evening. (Humboldt Broncos/Twitter)

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