City defends 1-day retraining of driver between previous collision and fatal Westboro crash [Video]

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After she crashed an articulated bus and injured five passengers in a preventable collision at St-Laurent station in December 2018, Aissatou Diallo received only one day of OC Transpo refresher training before being cleared to return to work, a coroner’s inquest has heard.

One week later, Diallo crashed another bus, this time with fatal results, on the Westboro Transitway in January 2019.

While her remedial instructor found Diallo still had driving issues that needed improvement, a City of Ottawa training official said he believes OC Transpo properly trained Diallo to make sure she was safe to go back on the road.

“I mean, hindsight is 20/20,” said Lindsay Toll, section manager of training and development for the city’s transit services department.

“Yes, it was a tragic accident, absolutely, 100 per cent. Could we have added on more training? Of course we could have,” Toll testified Monday.

“At that moment, we …