Highways crews have removed debris after a chain-reaction crash on the Coquihalla and both north and south bound lanes north of Hope have reopened.
The crash sent 29 people to hospital, and Emergency Health Services says the conditions of the injured range from stable to critical - another 136 who were unhurt were taken to a warming centre in Hope.
Passengers pulled unhurt from a Greyhound bus described being trapped and tweeted that their bus and a semi-trailer had clipped at the bottom of an icy hill as the chain-reaction crash started. They said the second bus toppled on its side down an embankment after being hit by another transport truck.
The collisions happened at around 8:00 pm Sunday and involved two buses, two transport trucks and two other vehicles.
Abbotsford RCMP Staff Sargeant Reinhold Weissbock tells AM 1150 News that it appears drivers were not adjusting to weather conditions.
"Not so much the road conditions, but the actual heavy snow that was coming down at the time. We had a feeling that visibility was going to be limited and things just out of control. We were just lucky that nobody was killed in this collisiion because there were so many vehicles involved, and so much carnage at the scene," he says.
Hope Search and Rescue was among numerous first responders who rushed to the scene and tweeted photos showing the rear wheels of one of the semi-trailers resting on top of another mangled vehicle.
(The Canadian Press/AM 1150 News)