Families share lingering scars from Westboro bus crash [Video]

• Stream the inquest live here. 

Bruce Thomlinson was the kind of fun-loving free spirit who would set a whole shelf of Elmo dolls a-talking in Walmart, or mow his family’s lawn in a Flintstones shirt “for all to see,” his wife says. 

“There was always a laugh involved when you were with him,” Elaine Thomlinson said. 

Bruce Thomlinson, 56, was one of three people who died in January 2019 when an OC Transpo double-decker carrying him and 84 other people — one person shy of the bus’s total seating capacity — slammed into the steel overhang of the Westboro Transitway bus shelter. 

The tragedy is now the subject of a weeks-long coroner’s inquestthat began Wednesday with opening statements from those who lost loved ones in …