Driver charged in crash that sent TTC bus into bank
A 23-year-old Toronto man has been charged following a crash that killed a passenger in his vehicle and sent a TTC bus careening into an Etobicoke bank.
Toronto police say an eastbound TTC bus — carrying six passengers — collided with a northbound Nissan Altima around 6 a.m. on Nov. 9 in the Kipling Avenue and Westhumber Boulevard area of Etobicoke.
After the crash, the bus left the intersection, mounted a curb and struck a street light and a fire hydrant before crashing into a CIBC bank outlet inside a strip plaza.
The bus driver and passengers were treated in hospital for minor injuries, police say. The Nissan driver and a passenger were sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries at the time. A 24-year-old man, a second passenger in the Nissan, died at the site of the crash.
"That was a pretty shocking accident," TTC CEO Andy Byford told Metro Morning the day after the fatal crash. "It's not every day that you see one of your buses embedded in a building."
The driver of the Nissan faces charges including impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm, impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing death, and criminal negligence causing death.
He appeared in court on Thursday.
