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Christine Adams was waiting for the ferry at the Horseshoe Bay terminal on Wednesday, returning home to Parksville after a morning at a book fair, when the unthinkable happened.

A transit bus veered onto the curb in front of the terminal’s main entrance, striking a mother, her four-year-old child, and a family friend — killing the child.

“It happened within a matter of seconds,” Adams said Friday. “The bus ended up going right and jumped the curb. It was a horrific thing to witness

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