Better TTC

The Toronto Transit Commission is defending the bus driver who hit a utility worker who ended up dying Thursday evening.

The 50-year-old girl was driving a southbound No. 7 bus on Bathurst Street when it slammed to the 42-year-old man from the underpass just north of Dupont Avenue.

The guy, who was about the street acting as becoming a security spotter to obtain a colleague carrying out maintenance function from the bucket lift of a utility truck, was pronounced dead at the scene.

TTC spokesman Brad Ross wouldn't say how much experience the driver has, but said she's well-trained.

"Our operators, our drivers … are extremely educated, skilled professional drivers trained in defensive driving," Ross stated Friday afternoon.

"We have almost 2,000 automobiles on the street every single day, whether or not or not they are buses and streetcars, carrying virtually 1 particular plus a 50 percent million folks all around. Incidents sadly do come about."

It was the fourth accident involving the TTC since last week.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour and Toronto police are scrutinizing the latest incident.

Investigators say the upkeep workers, who're from a private company referred to as Stacey Electric, could have positioned their truck in a way that caused the accident.

"The bucket was elevated inside the air having a 51-year-old man," said Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella. "That bucket also had an arm which was sticking out onto the passing lane, with all of the outcome that as soon as the bus was going by way of the passing lane, the TTC bus went by way of, hit the arm, producing the bucket to move."

The worker inside the bucket lift was knocked down, but survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The bus driver is receiving counselling from the TTC.

None of your names of individuals involved inside the accident has been released.