He had been driving the Park’N Fly shuttle for 10 hours and was tired, the driver told his passengers as he let them off near Montreal’s airport. The engine was still humming when, without warning, the bus lurched forward.

That’s according to a witness who has come forward to The Gazette, offering new details of the collision that killed a 76-year-old woman last Friday . It is a moment, he says, that has left him shaken and sleepless.

What he said happened: • The driver allegedly told the witness he was “exhausted” after a 10-hour shift minutes before the crash. • The bus went from a full stop to “full throttle,” striking and killing the woman. • The witness says he was millimetres from being hit and is now suffering from trauma.

‘He just wanted to go home’

The fatal crash occurr

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