Bus drivers across the Montreal region will stop their vehicles simultaneously Wednesday morning to observe a minute of silence in honour of the victims of last week's deadly daycare bus crash. Bus operators working for transit agencies in Laval, Montreal and Longueuil will stop driving at exactly 8:24 a.m. to pay their respects.
Bus drivers across the Montreal region will stop their vehicles simultaneously Wednesday morning to observe a minute of silence in honour of the victims of last week's deadly daycare bus crash.
Bus operators working for transit agencies in Laval, Montreal and Longueuil will stop driving at exactly 8:24 a.m. to pay their respects. The gesture will be held one week to the day that two young children were killed after a city bus rammed into the Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose, a daycare on Dufferin Terrace in Laval's Ste-Rose district. Six other children were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"The event has upset bus drivers in Laval, in particular, and bus drivers everywhere in general. To see one's work vehicle cause such a tragedy is appalling," said Dominic Aubry, an official from the FTQ-affiliated CUPE union that represents transit operators, in a news release Tuesday. Police have so far not identified a motive for the crash that prosecutors allege was a deliberate act.
The driver, 51-year-old Pierre Ny St-Amand of Laval, was arrested at the scene and later charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven other charges, including aggravated assault and attempted murder.
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