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| “Driver tried to stop” |
Two women passengers on the OC Transpo bus that collided with a VIA train Wednesday say that driver Dave Woodard did respond to the cries from passengers telling him to stop. But he did so too late. This information, aired on CP24, has been unreported by the media and is being transmitted even now quite incidentally. Previously aired information about the seconds before the collision have come from motorists and train passengers who seemed to suggest that the bus slammed into the train without slowing. If Woodard did in fact apply the brakes in a futile attempt to avoid the crash it would tend to suggest that he had been distracted or asleep in the moments before he heard the passengers shouting at him, not disabled or unconscious as some have speculated.
