Inquest begins into deadly 2019 bus crash [Video]

• Stream the inquest live here. 

The horrific 2019 bus crash that left three Ottawa commuters dead, injured more than 30 other passengers, sparked a flurry of lawsuits, triggered a criminal trial that ended in the acquittal of the bus driver — and ultimately raised questions about bus safety in the city — is now back under the microscope. 

On Jan. 11, 2019, an OC Transpo double-decker carrying 85 passengers slammed into the steel overhang of the Westboro transitway bus shelter.

Area resident Len Tucker remembers staring down at the chaotic site. 

“There [were] stretchers … you see the bus damaged, you see the roof…. You knew it was catastrophic,” Tucker, the current chair of the Westboro Community Association, recalled to CBC …