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It isn’t a daily occurrence for a bus to run out of fuel. In fact, it’s more frequent than that, according to figures provided Friday by the Société de transport de Montréal.

Earlier this week, Renée Amilcar, the STM’s executive director of buses, said it was a rare occurrence for a bus to run out of gas. However, the STM statistics contradict Amilcar’s assertion. Within the last three months, there was an average of 1.3 reports per day of a bus running out of fuel.

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“Over the last three months, on average, ‘lack of fuel’ was the cause of 2.2 per cent of all service reports or breakdowns,” said Philippe Déry, a spokesperson for the STM.

Gleason Frenette, the president of the maintenance union, believes the figures are much higher than the STM reports in its internal statistics, because lately the agency has been classifying buses running out of fuel as an “engine stall.”

He said he spoke with a tow-truck driver Friday morning who said he had already towed four buses that were out of fuel.