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Kate 20:42 on 2020-08-17 Permalink Reply  

• dwgs 10:13 on 2020-08-18 Permalink

  “A car reportedly drove into La Louisiane restaurant …” Uh, no a car definitely drove into La Louisiane restaurant as is evidenced by the damage in the attached photo. The woman was confused by a westbound bus as she came from Draper?? Draper is across the street and a little bit over from the resto. It was rush hour so the westbound bus would have been in the lane immediately adjacent to the nose of her car as she arrived at Sherbrooke so she would have had to cross two other lanes of traffic, a lane of parked cars, the sidewalk, and drive through a large wood and earth planter AFTER she encountered the bus. And she was still going fast enough to do major damage when she hit the building. My guess is that she saw the oncoming bus in the express lane and put the gas pedal to the floor in an attempt to get into the eastbound lane without waiting for it to pass. Then she panicked. Good thing it wasn’t later in the week or the terrasse in front of La Lou would have been full and we would likely have fatalities. Take away her license.

• Blork 12:52 on 2020-08-18 Permalink

  I agree with @dwgs’ analysis; that this was more than a little “Oops! Bonked into your restaurant!” FFS, it’s a miracle a bunch of pedestrians weren’t mowed down. The article says the woman says she “got distracted.” By what? Texting?

  Also, I dispute the claim that “No other injuries were caused during the crash.” I’ll bet the owner of the restaurant is feeling pretty injured right now! As if things weren’t bad enough for restaurants… (OK, that’s not a physical injury…)

• DeWolf 18:44 on 2020-08-18 Permalink

  Between the anti-bike vitriol and drivers randomly crashing into buildings, Montreal is starting to feel a lot like Toronto.