{"id":462922,"date":"2026-02-09T02:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462922\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:33:11","slug":"1-dead-6-in-serious-condition-after-charter-bus-rollover-near-alberta-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462922\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 6 in serious condition after charter bus rollover near Alberta town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Alberta <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/rcmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RCMP<\/a> say one person is dead and more than a dozen are injured after a charter bus hit the median east of Grande Prairie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to police, at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/collision\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collision<\/a> approximately one kilometre west of the hamlet of Debolt.<\/p>\n<p>Police said an initial investigation found the bus hit the median and rolled over once, landing on its wheels.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 37 people were on board the bus, including adults and children. RCMP confirmed in a news release that a 50-year-old woman from Grande Prairie died as a result of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and multiple paramedics were dispatched; they assessed six passengers who were in serious condition and sent to hospital via ambulance. Their conditions are not known at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A bus was brought in to transport 16 other patients to hospital who were said to have minor injuries. 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While the crash is still under investigation, road conditions are believed to be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Local victim services, alongside the RCMP\u2019s victim and family liaison officers, have been engaged. People impacted by the incident are asked to contact their local RCMP; resources will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta RCMP say one person is dead and more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16703,55103,32923,43,44,920,41,39,42,40,1890],"class_list":["post-462922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta-rcmp","tag-collision","tag-grande-prairie","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-rcmp","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}