A pedestrian was injured Tuesday morning when she was struck by a dump truck driver after getting off a TTC streetcar, Toronto police say.

The collision happened at Bathurst and Ulster Sts., a block south of Central Technical School, around 8:40 a.m.

The woman was exiting from a streetcar moving south on Bathurst when she was struck by a dump truck in the right-hand lane, police said.

Paramedics rushed the victim to the hospital. Police later said the injuries weren’t life-threatening.

The driver of the dump truck remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.

Just last week, a 54-year-old pedestrian was killed after being struck by a cement truck while crossing the road near Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. E. She died at the scene, police said.

Mayor John Tory, speaking to reporters later Tuesday, said he thinks it’s clear that more needs to be done regarding trucks and pedestrian safety.

“I think that’s going to involve not just government doing things and passing rules or redesigning intersections or changing signals, all of which we’re doing,” Tory said. “But in this regard, I have called together next Wednesday a group of people from the construction industry, people who are involved in driving big trucks, because clearly based on the numbers this year, so far, that is a particular problem that we have to address.”

Nine of the 26 pedestrians killed on Toronto roads this year died in collisions involving heavy trucks, according to the Star’s traffic death count.

“I hope that that can be a constructive meeting where I can have them agree to do certain things, whether it’s increased training, increased safety measures, so that we can stop this kind of tragic event from happening in the city as part of the vision zero program,” Tory said.

The victims include a 40-year-old man struck by the driver of a dump truck in North York, a woman in her late 70s run over by a transport truck driver in Scarborough, and a 58-year-old woman crushed by a reversing garbage truck in an alleyway downtown.

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