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Aissatou Diallo, the rookie OC Transpo driver on trial for dangerous driving causing death, will not take the stand in her own defence.
The Crown rested its case against Diallo last week without calling a single Ottawa police reconstruction officer or the lead investigator, Alain Boucher, to testify.
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Diallo, a 44-year-old single mom of four, is on trial for three counts of dangerous driving causing death and 35 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. She had only driven Route 269 twice before she slammed a double-decker bus into a steel-framed bus shelter at Westboro Station around 3:50 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2019.
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Ottawa Crown attorneys prosecuting the rookie OC Transpo driver for the deadly 2019 Westboro Station crash rested their case on Friday without calling the lead investigator or the police reconstruction officers to the stand.
In fact, one of the Ottawa police reconstruction officers was on the original witness list, but was removed by the Crown earlier this week.
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Det. Alain Boucher, the lead investigator, was also not called as a Crown witness and was asked to leave the courtroom early on in the trial to protect the authenticity of his testimony should he be called to the stand later on.
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