[Alberta's Child]

From what I’ve seen, the lack of seat belt use may not have been a major factor here. One of the five fatalities was belted in, so this was clearly a high-impact collision that would have caused a lot of damage even if everyone was belted in.

[Abby4116]

In one of the news articles in the days following the accident, the pickup (who left the southbound lanes) hit the rear of car #1 (northbound) in the rear quarter panel, then was sideways across both northbound lanes and the van (with 6 passengers) t-boned the pickup.

The mother (lone survivor) front seat passenger, was wearing a seat belt. I've heard she was asleep at the time of the accident. I think she had a broken leg, broken arm and broken ribs.