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Weekend, September 2-5, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Drugs found on TTC bus involved in fatal crash
Jubilant. Crowd
Driver in fatal crash accused of having drugs stashed on bus Police and Crown prosecutors to discuss laying charges The driver of the TTC bus that crashed Tuesday had a small quantity of drugs in his possession, police investigators believe, and refused a TTC drug test after the incident, which left one passenger dead and 13 injured. Police Det. Const. Carl Andersen said officers at the scene did not believe that the driver, 52-yearold William Ainsworth, was intoxicated. They did not have cause to conduct their own drug test, he said, and only found the “substance,” which they “believe might be marijuana,” when conducting an inventory of the bus seven hours later. “We are concerned he may have smoked up, but there wasn’t any obvious signs of the effects of marijuana at the time of the investigation,” Andersen said in an interview. Ainsworth has been fired, the TTC said in a statement. A source close to the TTC said he had worked there for about 10 years and had been commended for his performance. Police are meeting with prosecutors next week to discuss possible charges related to the crash.
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The bus that collided with a truck.
“We are concerned he may have smoked up, but there wasn’t any obvious signs of the effects of marijuana at the time of the investigation.” POLICE DET. CONST. CARL ANDERSEN
The crash occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. It killed Toronto woman Jadranka Petrova, 43. Petrova had been seated on the left side of the raised platform behind the bus’s rear doors. She died at the scene. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Ryerson University students and faculty shake things up Thursday during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest maracas ensemble. TARA WALTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Ryerson rattles its way into the record books To get the crowd excited and hyped up, Ryerson’s Orientation Crew taught everyone a rhythm with their maracas before they started the official challenge in Ryerson’s Quad. The crowd of 567 people broke the old Guinness World Record for the largest maracas ensemble set in Manchester, England, which had 407 people.