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A public servant who suffered grievous injuries to her right leg in the OC Transpo bus crash at Westboro Station — and watched her seatmate die — has filed a $6.3-million lawsuit against the city.

Lynn Ellis, an administrative support assistant at Transport Canada, sat toward the front of OC Transpo Bus 8155 on the afternoon of Jan. 11.

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Her “bus friend”, Anja Van Beek, 65, a Treasury Board employee, was beside her, according to Ellis’s lawyer, Derek Nicholson.

Van Beek was one of three passengers who died when the bus careered into the shelter at Westboro Station.

Ellis grabbed onto the handrail, but was thrown from her seat while her right leg was pinned. It was held fast by the seats that collapsed along the passengers’ side of the bus.

“Her right leg sustained severe orthopedic injuries which will preclude the plaintiff from ever walking properly again,” the statement of claim reads.

Her fractured right knee required plates, rods and pins to repair.