{"id":36063,"date":"2014-12-21T16:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36063"},"modified":"2014-12-21T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:25:15","slug":"police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-14-year-old-girl-killed-by-toronto-transit-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/21\/police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-14-year-old-girl-killed-by-toronto-transit-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for witnesses after 14 year old girl killed by Toronto transit bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36064\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/640px-TTC_1515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36064\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/640px-TTC_1515.jpg\" alt=\"A Toronto Transit Commission bus stationary in Downtown Toronto. Secondarywaltz \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/640px-TTC_1515.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/640px-TTC_1515-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Toronto Transit Commission bus stationary in Downtown Toronto. Secondarywaltz \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Toronto police are appealing for witnesses after a city transit bus struck and killed a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the girl was crossing a street (at Finch Avenue East at Neilson Road) in the city\u2019s northwest on Friday night when she was struck by a Toronto Transit Commission bus as it made a right turn.<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the bus, which was being driven by a 27-year-old man, failed to remain at the scene of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The TTC says the driver is being interviewed by police and that the transit agency is co-operating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It says video from the bus has been downloaded to help investigators and that the \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d of the TTC go out to the girl\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>The Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents Toronto transit workers, issued a statement saying it was \u201cshocked and devastated by the teen\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union said it would make no further comment but would cooperate with the police investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Toronto police are appealing for witnesses after a city transit bus struck and killed a 14-year-old girl. Police say the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}