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One dead, 13 injured in TTC bus crash
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The Toronto Star- Alyshah Hasham and Zoe McKnight
One passenger is dead and 13 others injured after the TTC bus they were travelling on collided with a construction truck near the Don Valley Parkway Tuesday.
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A 43-year-old woman from Toronto was killed in the crash, which took place around 2:30 p.m. Six passengers went to trauma for serious injuries, police said. Another three were taken to hospital in ambulances and the rest had more minor injuries.
The male bus driver was uninjured, said Danny Nicholson, supervisor of corporate communications for the TTC. It was not immediately known how many people were on board the 54 Lawrence East bus, he said.
The TTC is cooperating with the investigation, which is being handled by Toronto police.
The front right corner of the bus was smashed after the crash and debris spread across part of Lawrence Ave. E.
The truck was in second closest lane to the curb travelling westbound before the exit lane, said Const. Hugh Smith. It appears the bus was changing lanes from the same lane as the truck into the second lane from the center.
The bus will remain where it is for about three hours while the reconstruction team investigates, police said.
Both drivers are being investigated, Smith said. The Amherst truck driver was “devastated,” he said, and both drivers are shaken up.
The truck was carrying a lowered crane on its trailer. It has been pulled to the side of Lawrence, which is closed eastbound from The Donway E. to Victoria Park Ave. and westbound at Railside Rd.
Yvonne Bullard lives in the building overlooking the accident. She heard a loud crash and called 911.
“I said to the 911 people if there is anyone at the front of bus, they must be dead,” she said.
Bullard takes that bus route everyday and was considering taking an afternoon bus today to a doctor’s appointment.
She saw lots of passengers rush off the bus as soon as they could, pushing the door. Many of them were bandaged up by paramedics as she watched from the sidewalk.
“My knees are all wobbly,” said Janice, who preferred her last name be withheld. She rushed to the scene when she found out her daughter was on the bus. She heard her daughter was covered in blood and was rushed to the hospital along with the other injured, but does not know how severely she is hurt. She also doesn’t know if her daughter’s two children were in the bus with her.
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