Crash at Dundas Street and Highbury Avenue injured three people, smashed bus shelter
A woman is wheeled on a stretcher to an ambulance after the car she was a passenger in collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Highbury Avenue and Dundas Street in London. on Thursday. Three adults — one from the truck and two from the car — were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries in the incident, which occurred shortly after 2 p.m. and left glass from a nearby bus shelter shattered. (Craig Glover/The London Free Press/Postmedia Network)
A two-vehicle collision injured three people and sent a car crashing into a bus shelter in east London Thursday.
Witnesses say a car turning left onto Dundas Street from Highbury Avenue collided with a pickup truck going north on Highbury shortly before 2 p.m. The crash sent the car careening into a nearby bus shelter on Highbury, shattering three panes of glass.
“Luckily there was nobody in there,” said cyclist and witness Charles Palmer, 33.
A London Transit Commission worker wrapped yellow caution tape around the damaged bus shelter, while firefighters removed an injured woman from the passenger seat of the car, carrying her on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
Emergency workers said three women — two from the car and one from the pickup — were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The front passenger side of the car was crumpled in, while the pickup had minimal damage.
A man identified by witnesses as the driver of the pickup could be seen talking to police.
The crash comes one week after a horrific collision at the same intersection killed two people and injured three others. Police said a car driving south on Highbury at a high rate of speed crashed into the driver’s side of a car travelling east on Dundas last Thursday.
Scott Altiman, 31, is charged with two counts of impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing death and two of impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.
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Source: Collision injures three, shatters bus shelter | The London Free Press
