1 dead, several injured after TTC bus crash in Etobicoke
Posted November 9, 2014 6:56 am.
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One person is dead after a crash between a TTC bus and a car in Etobicoke early Sunday morning.
The collision happened around 6 a.m. on Kipling Avenue at Brookmere Road, south of Albion.
The bus collided with the car, took out a traffic light and fire hydrant then careened through a parking lot and into a CIBC branch.
“We have to determine if there was some kind of mechanical failure as a result of the collision,” Const. Clint Stibbe explained. “We will be looking at why that vehicle couldn’t come to a stop.”
Police said the two others in the car were taken to Sunnybrook hospital in critical condition.
Paramedics took six people from the bus to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The TTC will be conducting its own investigation alongside police, and CEO Andy Byford was at the scene to survey the aftermath.
“We have what’s called a DVR on our buses, it’s like a black box, and that will be downloaded and that should give us good information to go with the witness reports to find out what caused this terrible accident,” Byford said.
NOTE: Police had said one of the people taken to Sunnybrook had died, but later corrected that account.
