Bus 8017, left, pulls away from Fallowfield transit station in this CCTV image obtained by CBC News. Seconds later, it would collide with a passing train at a nearby level crossing. (City of Ottawa) ...

The driver of an Ottawa bus that crashed into a Via Rail passenger train, killing five passengers and himself in 2013, was likely distracted by a video screen he was required to monitor on the job ...

The bus was travelling at 67.6 km/h — 7.6 km/h above the speed limit. Suddenly, passengers noticed the train and yelled out at the driver to stop and look out.

On December 12, 1975, a GO train hit a TTC bus that had stalled on a level crossing in Scarborough as passengers fled the bus. Nine people died, according to contemporary press accounts.

On Sunday, a 2.5-kilometre section of bus rapid transit (BRT) will begin on Highway 7, the first part of an ambitious plan to serve this key artery above Toronto.

A survivor, 15, told local media the bus usually stopped at the closed gate at around 7.30am but found it open on this occasion. "There was no stoppage, no train sound. Our van got on the tracks ...

A southbound GO train heads across the flat crossing on Finch Ave. E. east of Kennedy Rd. as a TTC training bus sits at the crossing behind the barriers on Friday, Feb. 3, 2023.