By Canadian Press

Bus driver in deadly 2019 Ottawa crash found not guilty on all charges

Sep 22, 2021 | 12:19 PM

OTTAWA — The lawyers for an Ottawa bus driver charged in connection with a deadly crash in 2019 say their client’s acquittal today has been a long time coming.

Aissatou Diallo was found not guilty on all charges in an Ottawa court today — three counts of dangerous driving causing death and 35 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

The charges stemmed from a deadly crash in January 2019 when the OC Transpo double-decker bus that Diallo was driving slammed into a pedestrian platform overhang during rush hour.

Three people were killed and dozens of others were severely injured.

In a statement, Diallo’s lawyers Solomon Friedman and Fady Mansour say Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber’s verdict confirms Diallo is “an innocent woman … put in an awful position by circumstances far beyond her control.”

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The lawyers add that while they and their client acknowledge the tragedy continues to reverberate, the verdict confirms the crash was “an accident, not a criminal act.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2021.

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