

Chris Kitching, cp24.com





Charges are pending after a 27-year-old woman was fatally struck by a short school bus at Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue on Wednesday morning, Toronto police say.

Police said the collision occurred shortly after 7 a.m. while the woman was crossing Jane Street with the right-of-way.

The woman was walking across Jane Street, from west to east, on the south side of Milo Park Gate, while the bus was travelling west on Driftwood Avenue and turning to go south on Jane Street, police said.

Driftwood Avenue becomes Milo Park Gate on the west side of Jane Street.

Police Const. Hugh Smith said investigators are looking at laying a Highway Traffic Act charge against the bus' female driver.

Smith told CP24's Cam Woolley it will likely be a charge of making an unsafe turn.

Witness Antonio Casanova said he passed the woman moments before she entered the intersection.

He told CP24 he heard a loud bang, turned around and saw the woman being dragged by the school bus.

"I said to myself, ‘She just passed me, I just looked into her eyes," Casanova said.

No children were on board the bus at the time of the collision, police said.

Jane Street was closed between Shoreham Drive and Stong Court until 11 a.m.

With files from CP24's Cam Woolley