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Bus Driver in Deadly 2019 Ottawa Crash Found Not Guilty on All Charges
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A collision reconstruction expert says driver Aissatou Diallo likely could not have stopped her skidding double-decker bus before it slammed into Westboro Station even if she had hit the brakes.
Engineer Richard Lamoureux told court Thursday that he conducted a series of calculations that considered the speed of the OC Transpo bus, the road conditions, a driver’s typical response time, and the available stopping distance.
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He concluded that even if Diallo had reacted quickly to driving onto the Transitway’s snowy shoulder and applied the brakes in less than one second, she still would have been unable to bring bus 8155 to a halt before it struck Westboro Station.
WESTBORO BUS CRASH: Defence witness calls fatal Westboro bus crash entirely foreseeable “In our opinion, a safety audit ought to have identified the potential risks posed by the Transitway shelters to double-decker buses.
Author of the article: Andrew Duffy
Publishing date: May 04, 2021 • May 4, 2021 • 3 minute read Aissatou Diallo walks to the Ottawa courthouse in late March. Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia
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An accident reconstruction expert says the Westboro bus crash was “entirely foreseeable” given the design of the Transitway and the danger posed to double-decker buses by its stations.
“In our opinion, a safety audit ought to have identified the potential risks posed by the Transitway shelters to double-decker buses,” engineer Richard Lamoureux concluded in his April 2021 report on the crash, prepared at the request of OC Transpo driver Aissatou Diallo’s defence team.