Richard Wood lay on the floor of the number 85 bus, a pool of blood seeping out from beneath his leg and damaged wheelchair.

About 10 minutes later, still lying on the floor, OC Transpo supervisors arrived — and started taking pictures.

Wood, 66, said it was three Good Samaritans — and not transit staff — who eventually helped him back into his chair.

The frequent transit user is unhappy with how OC Transpo handled the Sept. 10 situation and said the only reason he fell was that the bus driver took a hard right turn way too fast.

“I flipped over so fast, I didn’t even know what had happened to me,” he said.

Wood had boarded the bus on Bronson Ave., near St. Vincent Hospital where he lives, and installed himself in the wheelchair bay opposite the driver’s side.

The bus chugged down Preston St. then zoomed around the corner of Carling Ave.

He fell, hard.

Part of his wheelchair pierced his leg, leaving a 2 1/2-inch gash.

“I could see this big puddle of blood,” he said, holding his hands in a circle about one foot in diameter.

“I was scared to death. I thought, ‘Is this coming from me?’”

The bus driver summoned his supervisors .

“They just took pictures (of me) lying on my side,” Wood said. “They didn’t help me up at all.”

Paramedics arrived and offered to take him to get stitches, but Wood opted for a simple bandage.

The bus driver eventually drove him to the door of St. Vincent Hospital, much to the bemusement of other patients.

“By the way,” Wood said the bus driver told him, “you know there’s a strap you could’ve put around yourself.”

“I said, ‘that’s a great time to tell me now.’”

His oxygen tank now sits askew on the back of his motorized wheelchair, and the control panel nearly fell off in the crash.

“The ambulance guys taped it back on where it was half-assed drivable,” he said.

St. Vincent staff managed a more permanent fix but he remains uncomfortable in his banged-up chair.

“It’s still not right, as you can see,” he said.

The city confirmed OC Transpo officials are investigating the incident and that “appropriate action will be taken based on the findings.”

Wood is growing impatient.

“I haven’t heard a word from these people at all,” he said. “I’d like for them to respond to me.”

tony.spears@sunmedia.ca

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