
Guy Quenneville
Reporter at CBC Ottawa
Guy was born and raised in Cornwall, Ont. He can be reached at guy.quenneville@cbc.ca
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Leftover road markings may have led driver astray in Westboro bus crash, expert says
"I think it's clear they have the potential to mislead," Ian Knight testified Thursday at an ongoing coroner's inquest into the tragic 2019 bus collision.
Canada -Ottawa |

Driver shortage, 'political pressure' in letting Westboro operator back on road after prior crash
'A day didn't go by that I didn't get an email from my councillor's office asking why this route does not function properly,' testified OC Transpo's former manager of bus operations Wednesday at the coroner's inquest into the fatal Westboro station bus crash.
Canada -Ottawa |

Split shifts and 'Big Brother' driver cameras: Union takes the mic at bus crash inquest
The coroner's inquest into the fatal OC Transpo bus crash of 2019 is exploring a broad swath of ideas for making transit safer.
Canada -Ottawa |

City defends 1-day retraining of driver between previous collision and fatal Westboro crash
After she crashed an articulated bus and injured five passengers in a preventable collision, Aissatou Diallo received only one day of refresher training before being cleared to return to work.
Canada -Ottawa |

How driver training changed after the fatal Westboro bus crash
The coroner's inquest into the fatal 2019 OC Transpo bus crash is hearing about changes the transit agency has made to its training of new recruits since the Westboro collision.
Canada -Ottawa |

Inquest interrogates OC Transpo booking system that leaves 'crumbs' for 'junior' drivers
Four times a year, OC Transpo bus drivers go to a hall and plot out their lives for the coming season in discrete blocks of time. In recent days, that booking system — and what it means for driver safety — has been the focus of the coroner's inquest into the fatal 2019 crash at Westboro station.
Canada -Ottawa |
Safety striping installed at Lincoln Fields station amid coroner's inquest — but years late
Safety striping that was meant to be placed by the end of 2022 on a passenger shelter at OC Transpo's Lincoln Fields bus station did not get installed until earlier this week amid an ongoing coroner's inquest into a fatal bus collision involving a similar canopy in 2019.
Canada -Ottawa |

Westboro crash inquest hears of previous collisions and roads not taken
The coroner's inquest into the OC Transpo bus crash that left three people dead is turning its focus to what changes were made, or not, in the years between that tragedy and today.
Canada -Ottawa |

Collision impact expert describes what made Westboro bus crash so brutal
The rigidity of the station canopy, and the height at which the bus struck it, were key factors in the Westboro bus crash's devastation, a coroner's inquest heard.
Canada -Ottawa |

Contractor didn't properly erase road markings raised in Westboro crash trial, inquest told
A "construction deficiency" that occurred months before the fatal Westboro bus crash is resurfacing at the coroner's inquest into the January 2019 tragedy.
Canada -Ottawa |