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Crown and defence arguments in the Westboro bus crash trial concluded Wednesday, leaving Justice Matthew Webber to decide whether the driver was ultimately responsible for the fatal collision, or if other factors were to blame.
Richard Lamoureux, a collision reconstruction expert from DFA Engineering Services Inc., presented his report to court Tuesday, deconstructing the incident as four collisions, not one.
Lamoureux said his report was based on a combination of video from the bus, data that was downloaded from the bus by investigators and police reports. He said he did not interview Diallo.
Court was shown video from the back of the bus that showed a stop request sign was lit at 3:49 p.m., a little more than a minute before the crash.
Lamoureux said the double-decker s movement was gradual and resembled a lane change to do a stop at Westboro station.
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 6:45 PM ET | Last Updated: April 14
Aissatou Diallo is facing 38 dangerous driving charges, including 3 charges of dangerous driving causing death, stemming from the Westboro bus crash. Diallo s instructor was cross-examined in court Wednesday.(Raphael Tremblay/CBC)
The OC Transpo instructor who showed Aissatou Diallo how to operate the emergency brake on a double-decker bus told the court Wednesday he forgot to note it in her training record.
Diallo was behind the wheel of the bus that slammed into Westboro station on Jan. 11, 2019, killing three passengers and injuring many more. She has pleaded not guilty to 35 charges of dangerous driving and three counts of dangerous driving causing death.
For the first time, the trial of the OC Transpo driver charged in the fatal 2019 bus crash at Westboro station heard testimony Tuesday from a passenger who was sitting on the vehicle's upper deck when the impact occurred.