In the case of this dead dog, witnesses allege London bus driver didn't do the right thing
CBC
Witnesses of a fatal collision between a London city transit bus and a family dog say they were shocked and dismayed, alleging the driver didn't stop to check what he'd hit after the bus collided with the animal inside a school zone.
The incident happened earlier this month, on Nov 2, on Bonaventure Drive and Simpson Crescent, when a London Transit bus on the 2B Dundas route was entering a school zone shortly before 5 p.m., according to the London Police Service.
The dog, a four-year-old German Shepherd, named Tori, escaped her home and ran under the passing bus on Bonaventure Drive.
Witnesses say she was fatally crushed under the vehicle's tires before the bus kept going on its scheduled route.
Police attended the scene, and a spokesperson told CBC News no charges were laid in the incident.
However, multiple witnesses allege the driver didn't do the right thing in the aftermath of the collision.
"I will never forget what I saw," said Sean Wilson, who knows the dog, her family and lives nearby on Simpson Crescent.
He watched what unfolded from across the street, so close, he said, "if I had a piece of gum in my mouth, I could have spit it — that close."
"He didn't come to a stop," Wilson said of the driver. "I saw him looking left, looking right. He kind of came out of his seat like he was kind of perched up. I saw the people on the bus get up, their hands against the window, looking down to see what happened."
Wilson said the driver slowed for about 10 seconds after the impact, looked in his mirrors, then sped up again — with no apparent regard for the animal he had just killed.
"He stepped right up and took off," Wilson said.
Wilson then ran to the dog's aid, who was sprawled on the asphalt by then.
"That's when I took her in my arms," he said. "Tori died in my arms."
Wilson wasn't the only person who saw what happened. So did Brianna Halfday, who was driving behind the 2B Dundas bus when the incident occurred.
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