16 injured after truck crashes into bus transporting hockey team.

We have some awful news to report, news that will sound all too familiar to hockey fans.

According to a heartbreaking report from the Chicago Sun Times, 16 students from St. Ignatius College Prep have been injured after a tractor-trailer rig collided with their bus on Saturday evening. The accident occurred in the city of Warsaw located in Kosciusko County, Indiana and the Warsaw Police have confirmed that the driver of the tractor-trailer rig failed a field sobriety test.

The accident occurred around 8 pm on Saturday evening and the tractor-trailer rig is described as having been swerving and moving at excessive speeds. There were 23 young student athletes and 2 adult coaches on board the bus at the time of the collision, which was traveling back from Culver Military Academy where a tournament had been held earlier in the day.

Three of those injured were reportedly in "very critical condition" at the time of the accident but thankfully it seems that they are now in stable condition after being treated at Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital.

This of course will bring back haunting memories of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash for members of the hockey community, another accident in which a tractor-trailer rig struck a bus carrying a group of young hockey players, many of whom were slain in that terrible accident.

Thankfully it appears that, as of the time of this writing, there have somehow been no fatalities as a result of this incident and the driver responsible has been arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence. Although officers have not released any official details regarding the charges faced by the driver, they did confirm that they detected a strong odor of alcohol both on the driver himself and in the cab of his semi.

Hopefully he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but more importantly we hope that anyone injured as a result of this incident makes a full recovery and can get back to playing the sport that they love as quickly as possible.