Emergency personnel attend the scene of a rollover crash in Vaughan, Ont. on Wednesday, January 14, 2015.Victor Biro
A woman is dead after a GO bus crashed off the road in suburban Toronto.
No other vehicles were involved in the Vaughan crash, which left the bus on its side, well off the road, with a long length of guardrail inside.
Ontario Provincial Police spokesman Sergeant Kerry Schmidt said that the crash happened around 10 p.m. In a phone interview from the scene a bit more than an hour later, the officer said it was clear and dry, with "no environmental conditions that would factor into this."
Police initially said a male passenger on the bus was killed in the late evening crash and the remaining five people aboard were injured. That was later amended. The person killed was a female passenger. The other two female passengers on the bus and the male driver received minor injuries and were taken to hospital, while two male passengers on board were not injured.
Police said the crash – which happened around Highway 407 and Weston Road – involved the bus striking the guardrail "for unknown reasons" and then rolling off the highway. It remains under investigation. The eastbound highway was reopened in time for the morning rush hour.
A spokeswoman for Metrolinx, the regional transit agency that includes GO, said that there were few details in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Anne Marie Aikins said the driver had to be extricated from the wreckage.
"No other cars involved," Ms. Aikins said in an e-mail. "I don't know who has been reported as the fatality."
Police said they would not be releasing the name of the victim until notification of next of kin is complete.
GO Transit said that the bus involved in the crash was on route 47, heading from Hamilton to York University. People concerned that their family or friends might have been on the bus were encouraged to contact the OPP.
Oliver Moore