A $60-million class action filed in the days after a January 2019 bus crash at Westboro station that killed three people and injured at least 23 others will not go ahead in its current form. The Ontario Superior Court issued a decision Thursday rejecting the certification of the proposed lawsuit, according to a memo issued late Friday afternoon by City of Ottawa solicitor David White. The lawsuit had alleged the city was liable for the crash itself, as well as the design and maintenance of the Transitway and its stations. The Ottawa Police Service, with help from the Transportation Safety Board, investigated the crash, MacLeod wrote. "Class proceedings are not to be used to needlessly inflate tragic incidents into public spectacles," MacLeod wrote.

Source: CBC News January 22, 2021 23:15 UTC