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MELFORT, Sask. — Court has heard that a semi-truck driver barrelled through an oversized stop sign with a flashing red light before the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

An agreed statement of facts says Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was going between 86 and 96 km/h when he drove into a rural Saskatchewan intersection north of Tisdale last April.

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The statement says the driver of the Broncos junior hockey team bus hit the brakes and the bus skidded for about 24 metres. It T-boned the truck at an impact of between 96 and 107 km/h.

Crown prosecutor Thomas Healey says there was no way the bus driver could have avoided the collision. The transport truck was fully in the intersection across all lanes of traffic.

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“The driver of the bus recognized the hazard as quickly as possible,” Healey said.

The statement says RCMP found no evidence that Sidhu had used drugs or alcohol or that he was distracted by a cellphone. The weather and road conditions were good.