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OC Transpo has experienced more on-board collision fatalities during the past 10 years than eight of the country’s largest transit systems combined.

And one road-safety expert says that’s something OC Transpo officials should pay attention to.

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“OC Transpo’s record stands out because it is the same bus failing to stop in time in 2013 and in 2019,” said Ahmed Shalaby, the University of Manitoba engineering safety expert who has followed the OC Transpo bus crash closely.

A survey of safety records reveals that transit services in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal — along with regional services GO Transit and BC Transit — suffered a combined total of seven on-board fatalities over the past decade.

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During that same period, OC Transpo has suffered nine fatalities. All of OC Transpo’s fatalities occurred in two collisions, both involving double-decker buses. Six people were killed on Sept. 18, 2013, when an OC Transpo bus collided with a Via Rail train on Woodroffe Ave. And on Jan 11 this year, three people died and 23 others were injured when an OC Transpo bus slammed into a Transitway station in Westboro.