
Humboldt tragedy: New Brunswick town understands long shadow of fatal crash
BATHURST, N.B. — Few Canadian towns can better understand what the people of Humboldt, Sask., are going through than Bathurst, N.B.
The East Coast town recently marked the 10th anniversary of a van crash that killed seven members of a high school basketball team and the wife of its coach.
“The first thing I thought was how tough it’s going to be for everybody there because we’ve kind of gone through the same thing,” said Jordan Frenette, captain of the Bathurst High School Phantoms, said of Friday’s Humboldt Broncos crash in which 15 people died and 14 were left with injuries.
Frenette, now 27, said he had been ill and was resting up for another game when his team’s crash happened.