Halifax Transit expects one of its drivers to be ticketed after a woman was hit in a crosswalk last week.

"The account of the bus operator sounds very similar to the account of the pedestrian," Kevin Alexander, safety and training manager for Halifax Transit, told CBC's Mainstreet on Thursday.

Ariel Blanchard told CBC the bus hit her as she crossed Inglis Street at Robie Street mid­afternoon on April 23. Blanchard suffered bruising on her arm and side.

Ariel Blanchard shows her bruise. (CBC)

"As far as the police go, I would assume there's going to be a ticket issued. Typically when there's somebody in a crosswalk and the vehicle makes contact with them, a ticket is issued," Alexander said.

The driver would have to pay the fine.

Alexander met with training staff Thursday to review the incident. He raised one possible cause of the accident.

"There's a considerable blind spot behind the driver-side mirror and the pillar by the windshield. We reaffirmed to all our folks that you have to move around the seat, know that the blind spot is there, and make adjustments to see around it," he said.

Halifax Transit is still investigating. Police are also investigating, but haven't issued any tickets. Since 2012, police have issued five tickets to Halifax Transit for hitting pedestrians.

Blanchard said she didn't see the bus coming.

"It just came out of nowhere and hit me," said Blanchard. "I was very disoriented. It was a shock. It didn't even occur to me that it hurt until a few minutes later."

Blanchard says her experience with the bus driver was odd. She says after the collision, the bus driver parked and came over right away, saying she hadn't seen her crossing.

The driver then suggested sitting on the bus, says Blanchard, out of the rain to wait for the driver's supervisor to arrive. The supervisor then asked her questions, Blanchard says, including about wearing headphones or using her phone.

Crossing guard says bus 'knocked her down'

"I think they were trying to come up with ways to make it seem that it was my own fault that I'd been hit by a bus," she said. Blanchard says she crossed legally and without the distraction of her phone or headphones.

"Eventually they called an ambulance. I had to ask."

Laird Haduk, the crossing guard near Inglis Street Elementary School and Saint Mary's University, witnessed the bus hitting Blanchard. He says she didn't have her phone out or headphones in.

"The bus came up through and the bus pretty well perceived that they had the right of way and they just brushed the lady [and] knocked her down," said Haduk.

Blanchard said she started hearing from other people who've been hit by buses ­even from a fellow emergency room patient who was in waiting for X-­rays.

"It strikes me that there's a lot of us out there and that doesn't seem right," said Blanchard. "It seems like it should be quite an uncommon thing to meet somebody who's been hit by a bus and I've met several of them in just a few days."

It's the second time a Halifax Transit bus has hit a person this year, according to numbers provided by Tiffany Chase, a spokeswoman for the city. The other one was at the end of March, with the same bus route but at a different corner.

She says buses also hit pedestrians eight times in 2012 and in 2013, and three times in 2014.

This map shows shows each time a bus has hit a pedestrian in the last two years.

Between Oct. 15, 2012, and Oct. 15, 2013, bus drivers hit ten pedestrians, three of whom were in crosswalks. Between April 1, 2013, and March 31, 2014, Halifax Transit received almost 1,800 complaints about driving concerns and 325 about accidents, claims and/or injuries.