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Driver, five passengers confirmed dead as OC Transpo bus, Via train collide
By Joanne Laucius, Tom Spears and David Reevely, Ottawa CitizenSeptember 18, 2013 1:14 PM
OTTAWA — Six people have been confirmed dead after a northbound No. 76 double-decker OC Transpo bus and a Via Rail train collided near the Fallowfield station in Barrhaven Wednesday morning.
Fatalities on the scene included the bus driver and four passengers. A fifth passenger later died in hospital.
In total, 31 victims were taken to hospital, 11 in critical condition. Patients from the crash scene were distributed among the Ottawa hospitals, said paramedic chief Anthony DiMonte. Four went to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital, four to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, six to the General campus and 17 to the Montfort Hospital.
The collision sheared the front off the bus. Eyewitnesses have reported that the bus did not appear to slow down at the crossing.
Robert Kurtenbach was on the top level of the bus on his way to work downtown.
He said the bus had gone about half a kilometre from the Transitway station when suddenly he was aware a train was right in front of the bus.
“The bus didn’t appear to slow down,” he said, and the front end slammed hard into the side of the train. He said the crash ripped up the front of the bus badly.
People screamed, and he was thrown forward and twisted his leg, Kurtenbach said, but he feels he is lucky not to have been hurt worse.
Those at the front were badly hurt, said the badly shaken Kurtenbach, who was waiting for his daughter to taken him home.
“I could see bodies lying there,” inside the bus. He couldn’t estimate the number who seemed badly injured, but it was more than two or three. He couldn’t see the driver.
Witness Mark Cogan told The Canadian Press that the bus drove through the railway safety barriers.
“The guard rails were down,” Cogan said. “The train was going through. I was just looking around watching things happening and notice the bus, the double-decker bus … he just kept going. I thought maybe there was a side way around. But he instantly, he just smoked the train. He went right through the guard rail and just hammered the train. Then it was just mayhem.”
Witness Pascal Lolgis told CP that cars stopped for the train.
“And after that I see the bus came, no brake, no nothing and boom he went into the train like that. He didn’t stop. He must have lost his brakes or something or he had a heart attack or whatever. He just didn’t stop.”
At a press conference at 11:30, city officials said it would be premature to say what happened at the crossing, and had no comments on the bus driver until more information was known.
A study had focused on the Fallowfield crossing recently, but not this one, reporters heard. A contractor for Via maintains the gates at the crossing.
“We consider our crossing safe, or they wouldn’t be there,” Coun. Diane Deans, chair of the Transit Commission, told reporters.
Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is the lead investigating agency on the crash, with Ottawa police assisting.
OC Transpo general manager John Manconi confirmed the bus involved in the crash was a No. 76 and was heading north on the transitway, parallel to Woodroffe Avenue.
The cause of the accident is yet to be determined, said Manconi, who declined to identify the driver of the bus “until we’ve done all the proper notifications.”
The patients who were taken to the Montfort went aboard an OC Transpo bus full of paramedics and equipment, DiMonte said. They were less seriously injured than the others.
Some injuries were so severe he did not want to describe them even in general terms. “If I could, I’d prefer not to. ... One can assume it’s fairly major trauma.”
None of the city officials would say anything about how the collision happened — that’s a job for the Transportation Safety Board, Bordeleau said.
The train was Via Rail train 51 from Montreal, which had just left the Ottawa station and was pulling into Fallowfield station, officials have confirmed. There were 103 passengers on the train.
All trains in the east-west rail corridor have been cancelled. Meanwhile, worried families gathered at the Nepean Sportsplex hoping for news about the victims.
The City of Ottawa is urging family members to contact the city at 3-1-1.
Via Rail said it would provide comment later Wednesday morning and the city’s Emergency Operations Centre has been activated.
Woodroffe Avenue has been closed between Fallowfield and Hunt Club roads. Ottawa police are directing traffic, and officers off duty Wednesday rushed to assist.
In a joint statement issued about an hour later, Deans and Mayor Jim Watson expressed their condolences to those affected by the tragedy.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones, have been injured or have loved ones who have been injured.”
All available resources are being deployed to ensure that care is being provided to all persons involved at the scene, said the statement.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement of his own: “It is a tragic morning in the Nation’s Capital, as a devastating accident between a bus and train has caused injury and death.
“On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen and I extend our thoughts and prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.
In the early 2000s, the city had a plan to build an underpass for Woodroffe Avenue and then yet-to-be-built Transitway next to it, to separate traffic from the trains.
The $40-million project, whose cost was to be split among the city, provincial and federal governments, was put on hold in 2003 when it turned out that an unusual kind of rock in the area let water flow too freely into the construction trench.
The problem was solvable, city officials said at the time, but it would have cost more money; city council would have had to vote to spend it in 2004 and the other governments would have to be asked to kick in, too.
In 2002, then-mayor Bob Chiarelli described the intersection of tracks and road as “a very, very severe public safety issue.”
Witnesses at the scene were shaken by what they saw.
Constance MacNeil was waiting on the Via Rail platform and saw the crash a few hundred metres to the east.
She could see the train coming from downtown Ottawa “and all of a sudden we here something like an explosion. There’s dust and stuff coming up.”
She said it was instantly obvious there had been a crash, and the front of the train appeared to be pointing off to one side. She could not see the bus.
“It (the train) didn’t turn over but you knew it hit something.”
Afsoon Houshidari was late and caught the bus just behind the one that crashed.
“We just stopped abruptly and there was smoke,” she said.
“There were parts of the bus strewn over the road,” she said.
“And then I saw people.”
Houshidari went back to the Transitway stop to collect herself and met Robert Kurtenbach there. Both were badly shaken and they started talking. She says it helped.
Normally the bus is safe and dependable, she said.
“I’ve been here for an hour trying to get on the bus but every time the doors open I can’t get myself to get on.”
Lisa Souliere was going to work late after taking her mother to an appointment.
“As I’m walking toward the bus station, I heard all the sirens,” she said.
The crash was soon open the news and her daughter called to make sure she was all right.
“It’s very frightening. I feel very comfortable on the bus so I’m actually rather shocked how that could happen,” said Souliere.
There was a moment of silence for the victims at Queen’s Park Wednesday morning.
At a transit announcement in Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne took a moment to address what she called the “tragedy in Ottawa.”
“My heart goes out to the all the individuals and families who are affected and I want to thank first responders for being on the scene,” she said.
“The province will be in constant contact to help assist the City of Ottawa or the federal government if that’s necessary.”
John Baird, the Member of Parliament for Ottawa West-Nepean, issued a statement expressing his “great sadness” at the news of the accident.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims, and those injured in this terrible tragedy,” Baird said.
“I am extremely proud of the resiliency of the people of Ottawa and how we face adversity and tragedy together as a community. I have no doubt that today, our city will mourn those we’ve lost, and support those in need as we move forward as a city, and as a community.”
Baird also pledged to work with City officials to determine how to support the families affected by the tragedy.
By Joanne Laucius, Tom Spears and David Reevely, Ottawa CitizenSeptember 18, 2013 1:14 PM
OTTAWA — Six people have been confirmed dead after a northbound No. 76 double-decker OC Transpo bus and a Via Rail train collided near the Fallowfield station in Barrhaven Wednesday morning.
Fatalities on the scene included the bus driver and four passengers. A fifth passenger later died in hospital.
In total, 31 victims were taken to hospital, 11 in critical condition. Patients from the crash scene were distributed among the Ottawa hospitals, said paramedic chief Anthony DiMonte. Four went to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital, four to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, six to the General campus and 17 to the Montfort Hospital.
The collision sheared the front off the bus. Eyewitnesses have reported that the bus did not appear to slow down at the crossing.
Robert Kurtenbach was on the top level of the bus on his way to work downtown.
He said the bus had gone about half a kilometre from the Transitway station when suddenly he was aware a train was right in front of the bus.
“The bus didn’t appear to slow down,” he said, and the front end slammed hard into the side of the train. He said the crash ripped up the front of the bus badly.
People screamed, and he was thrown forward and twisted his leg, Kurtenbach said, but he feels he is lucky not to have been hurt worse.
Those at the front were badly hurt, said the badly shaken Kurtenbach, who was waiting for his daughter to taken him home.
“I could see bodies lying there,” inside the bus. He couldn’t estimate the number who seemed badly injured, but it was more than two or three. He couldn’t see the driver.
Witness Mark Cogan told The Canadian Press that the bus drove through the railway safety barriers.
“The guard rails were down,” Cogan said. “The train was going through. I was just looking around watching things happening and notice the bus, the double-decker bus … he just kept going. I thought maybe there was a side way around. But he instantly, he just smoked the train. He went right through the guard rail and just hammered the train. Then it was just mayhem.”
Witness Pascal Lolgis told CP that cars stopped for the train.
“And after that I see the bus came, no brake, no nothing and boom he went into the train like that. He didn’t stop. He must have lost his brakes or something or he had a heart attack or whatever. He just didn’t stop.”
At a press conference at 11:30, city officials said it would be premature to say what happened at the crossing, and had no comments on the bus driver until more information was known.
A study had focused on the Fallowfield crossing recently, but not this one, reporters heard. A contractor for Via maintains the gates at the crossing.
“We consider our crossing safe, or they wouldn’t be there,” Coun. Diane Deans, chair of the Transit Commission, told reporters.
Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is the lead investigating agency on the crash, with Ottawa police assisting.
OC Transpo general manager John Manconi confirmed the bus involved in the crash was a No. 76 and was heading north on the transitway, parallel to Woodroffe Avenue.
The cause of the accident is yet to be determined, said Manconi, who declined to identify the driver of the bus “until we’ve done all the proper notifications.”
The patients who were taken to the Montfort went aboard an OC Transpo bus full of paramedics and equipment, DiMonte said. They were less seriously injured than the others.
Some injuries were so severe he did not want to describe them even in general terms. “If I could, I’d prefer not to. ... One can assume it’s fairly major trauma.”
None of the city officials would say anything about how the collision happened — that’s a job for the Transportation Safety Board, Bordeleau said.
The train was Via Rail train 51 from Montreal, which had just left the Ottawa station and was pulling into Fallowfield station, officials have confirmed. There were 103 passengers on the train.
All trains in the east-west rail corridor have been cancelled. Meanwhile, worried families gathered at the Nepean Sportsplex hoping for news about the victims.
The City of Ottawa is urging family members to contact the city at 3-1-1.
Via Rail said it would provide comment later Wednesday morning and the city’s Emergency Operations Centre has been activated.
Woodroffe Avenue has been closed between Fallowfield and Hunt Club roads. Ottawa police are directing traffic, and officers off duty Wednesday rushed to assist.
In a joint statement issued about an hour later, Deans and Mayor Jim Watson expressed their condolences to those affected by the tragedy.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones, have been injured or have loved ones who have been injured.”
All available resources are being deployed to ensure that care is being provided to all persons involved at the scene, said the statement.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement of his own: “It is a tragic morning in the Nation’s Capital, as a devastating accident between a bus and train has caused injury and death.
“On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen and I extend our thoughts and prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.
In the early 2000s, the city had a plan to build an underpass for Woodroffe Avenue and then yet-to-be-built Transitway next to it, to separate traffic from the trains.
The $40-million project, whose cost was to be split among the city, provincial and federal governments, was put on hold in 2003 when it turned out that an unusual kind of rock in the area let water flow too freely into the construction trench.
The problem was solvable, city officials said at the time, but it would have cost more money; city council would have had to vote to spend it in 2004 and the other governments would have to be asked to kick in, too.
In 2002, then-mayor Bob Chiarelli described the intersection of tracks and road as “a very, very severe public safety issue.”
Witnesses at the scene were shaken by what they saw.
Constance MacNeil was waiting on the Via Rail platform and saw the crash a few hundred metres to the east.
She could see the train coming from downtown Ottawa “and all of a sudden we here something like an explosion. There’s dust and stuff coming up.”
She said it was instantly obvious there had been a crash, and the front of the train appeared to be pointing off to one side. She could not see the bus.
“It (the train) didn’t turn over but you knew it hit something.”
Afsoon Houshidari was late and caught the bus just behind the one that crashed.
“We just stopped abruptly and there was smoke,” she said.
“There were parts of the bus strewn over the road,” she said.
“And then I saw people.”
Houshidari went back to the Transitway stop to collect herself and met Robert Kurtenbach there. Both were badly shaken and they started talking. She says it helped.
Normally the bus is safe and dependable, she said.
“I’ve been here for an hour trying to get on the bus but every time the doors open I can’t get myself to get on.”
Lisa Souliere was going to work late after taking her mother to an appointment.
“As I’m walking toward the bus station, I heard all the sirens,” she said.
The crash was soon open the news and her daughter called to make sure she was all right.
“It’s very frightening. I feel very comfortable on the bus so I’m actually rather shocked how that could happen,” said Souliere.
There was a moment of silence for the victims at Queen’s Park Wednesday morning.
At a transit announcement in Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne took a moment to address what she called the “tragedy in Ottawa.”
“My heart goes out to the all the individuals and families who are affected and I want to thank first responders for being on the scene,” she said.
“The province will be in constant contact to help assist the City of Ottawa or the federal government if that’s necessary.”
John Baird, the Member of Parliament for Ottawa West-Nepean, issued a statement expressing his “great sadness” at the news of the accident.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims, and those injured in this terrible tragedy,” Baird said.
“I am extremely proud of the resiliency of the people of Ottawa and how we face adversity and tragedy together as a community. I have no doubt that today, our city will mourn those we’ve lost, and support those in need as we move forward as a city, and as a community.”
Baird also pledged to work with City officials to determine how to support the families affected by the tragedy.
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Hospitals, emergency services report on the victims of bus-train crash
31 injured and divided among four Ottawa hospitals
By David Reevely and Elizabeth Payne, OTTAWA CITIZEN September 18, 2013 1:33 PM
Firefighters and paramedics work on a critically injured patient at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa General Hospital after Wednesday morning’s collision between and OC Transpo bus and a Via train.
Photograph by: PAT McGRATH , THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
A picture of the number and severity of the victims injuries is developing as hospitals and city officials answered the first questions about the crash.
In total, 31 patients were divided among the Ottawa hospitals, chief paramedic chief Anthony DiMonte told reporters at a 11:30 a.m. news conference.
Of these 31 collision victims:
• Four were sent to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, and six to the General campus.
The Ottawa Hospital took the extraordinary move of declaring a Code Orange this morning shortly after the crash, calling in extra doctors and nurses and clearing room in surgery and emergency in preparation for trauma victims.
At a press conference at the General campus, Dr. Jim Worthington, senior vice-president of medical affairs, would not confirm the ages or genders of the victims, but said one arrived in critical condition. Paramedics were seen applying chest compression to a man as he was taken out if an ambulance.
All of the injured people had been on the bus, and some of the victims had limb and abdominal injuries.
A physician was on the scene to provide assessment and treatment on site, he said.
“Teams at both our campuses have been activated. The operating rooms have been cleared to make way for patients and presently the situation is completely under control,” he said.
“I am not going to give any specific stats update. I can say that they are stable and being managed by our physicians and trauma teams,” said Dr. Worthington.
“These are seriously injured patients. That is why they have been brought here to the trauma centre.”
• 17 patients went to the Montfort Hospital aboard an OC Transpo bus full of paramedics and equipment, said DiMonte said. They were less seriously injured than the other victims.
• Four patients were sent to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. The patients included three males and one female, none with life-threatening injuries, said a spokeswoman for the hospital. Two patients require surgery for broken bones and fractures.
Meanwhile, a reunification centre for family members has been set up the city at the Nepean Sportsplex, or call 3-1-1.
Hospitals, emergency services report on the victims of bus-train crash
31 injured and divided among four Ottawa hospitals
By David Reevely and Elizabeth Payne, OTTAWA CITIZEN September 18, 2013 1:33 PM
Firefighters and paramedics work on a critically injured patient at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa General Hospital after Wednesday morning’s collision between and OC Transpo bus and a Via train.
Photograph by: PAT McGRATH , THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
A picture of the number and severity of the victims injuries is developing as hospitals and city officials answered the first questions about the crash.
In total, 31 patients were divided among the Ottawa hospitals, chief paramedic chief Anthony DiMonte told reporters at a 11:30 a.m. news conference.
Of these 31 collision victims:
• Four were sent to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, and six to the General campus.
The Ottawa Hospital took the extraordinary move of declaring a Code Orange this morning shortly after the crash, calling in extra doctors and nurses and clearing room in surgery and emergency in preparation for trauma victims.
At a press conference at the General campus, Dr. Jim Worthington, senior vice-president of medical affairs, would not confirm the ages or genders of the victims, but said one arrived in critical condition. Paramedics were seen applying chest compression to a man as he was taken out if an ambulance.
All of the injured people had been on the bus, and some of the victims had limb and abdominal injuries.
A physician was on the scene to provide assessment and treatment on site, he said.
“Teams at both our campuses have been activated. The operating rooms have been cleared to make way for patients and presently the situation is completely under control,” he said.
“I am not going to give any specific stats update. I can say that they are stable and being managed by our physicians and trauma teams,” said Dr. Worthington.
“These are seriously injured patients. That is why they have been brought here to the trauma centre.”
• 17 patients went to the Montfort Hospital aboard an OC Transpo bus full of paramedics and equipment, said DiMonte said. They were less seriously injured than the other victims.
• Four patients were sent to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. The patients included three males and one female, none with life-threatening injuries, said a spokeswoman for the hospital. Two patients require surgery for broken bones and fractures.
Meanwhile, a reunification centre for family members has been set up the city at the Nepean Sportsplex, or call 3-1-1.
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