B.C. coroner urges safer road design to protect child pedestrians, cyclist
VANCOUVER — One winter afternoon, a student and a friend were dropped off by a transit bus along a British Columbia highway. Traffic was heavy, and there was no controlled crossing for pedestrians nearby.
The teens walked in front of the bus and ran to cross the road. Witnesses said neither youth looked for oncoming traffic, and they could not be seen by a driver in a car that was passing the bus.
“The vehicle driving past the bus narrowly missed the first youth but tragically fatally struck the second,” says a new report issued by the provincial coroners’ service.
“The friend stated, ‘I thought the transit bus was like a school bus and that vehicles would stop.’”