Around 8:48 a.m., an Ottawa Carlton Transit bus collided
with a Via Rail train at Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road in Ottawa, Canada.
A woman who was on the Ottawa double-decker bus with her one-year-old son during the crash described the Ottawa bus-train collision.
According to her eye witness report, she was just texting to her friend when other passengers began yelling at the bus driver to stop.
"As I looked up, the bus was coming into contact with
the gate," she told CTV News.
"I don't know what happened," she said. "I
don't know if the bus driver like blacked out, I don't know what happened but
he didn't slow down and it just impacted with the train."
She said that she immediately ran off the bus with her son.
"I've seen a few people dead, someone ripped in
half."
All of the killed or injured passengers were on the bus during the Ottawa bus-train collision. No injuries have been reported from the train passengers.
Five people from the bus were declared dead on the scene and one person died at the hospital. Thirty-one bus passengers were taken to hospitals; most of them sustained leg injuries. Eleven Ottawa bus passengers are in critical condition.
An eyewitness who was waiting for the train reported that while she was waiting, she heard "a thud" and "a loud metal-on-metal
screech."
