Ottawa police are charging an Ottawa bus driver with more
than three dozen offences after a deadly crash in January that
killed three people and injured 23 others.
Aissatou Diallo was initially arrested and questioned after the
incident at a transit station in westboro, but released
without charges.
Police say the 42-year-old turned herself in this morning and now
faces three counts of dangerous driving causing death, and 35 counts
of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
She is being released on a promise to appear at a court date
scheduled for mid-September.
The double-decker bus, on an express route from downtown to the
west-end suburb of Kanata, slammed into the roof of a shelter,
cutting through the right side of its upper deck and crushing a
number of seats.
Bruce Thomlinson, and Anja Van Beek of Ottawa and Judy Booth, originally from Almonte, all civil
servants working for the federal government, died in the crash that
happened during a frigid Friday rush hour in the national capital.
(The Canadian Press)
