Oct. 16, 2013 – Global News
Ontario’s coroner renewed calls for mandatory side guards on trucks Wednesday, hours after a 25-year-old woman was crushed almost to death beneath the wheels of a truck in downtown Toronto.
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Bus crash: Safety plans for Ottawa rail crossing were shelved even as area’s population grew
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The level train crossing where a fatal collision sheared the front off a bus, killed six people and injured 34 others was flagged as a safety hazard more than a decade ago. In the years since, a plan to separate vehicle traffic was scrapped, even as the roadway got much, much busier.
What costs will Montreal, Maine & Atlantic’s insurer cover in wake of Lac-Megantic explosion? It’s complicated
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, the company whose train derailed and exploded in a fiery, fatal inferno in Lac Megantic last month, is in a “controversy” with its insurer on what, exactly, the company can claim in the wake of that crash.
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