{"id":511807,"date":"2026-03-03T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:04:39","slug":"woman-injured-by-oc-transpo-bus-on-elgin-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511807\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman injured by OC Transpo bus on Elgin Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was seriously injured when her legs became trapped under an OC Transpo bus on Elgin Street on Monday afternoon, Ottawa paramedics said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were called to Elgin near Gladstone Avenue around 12:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedic spokesperson Nicolas Guertin said the woman&#8217;s legs became trapped under the wheels of the articulated bus near an OC Transpo stop on the west side of the street. Ottawa firefighters helped free her.<\/p>\n<p>The woman sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital in stable condition, Guertin said.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement, OC Transpo said it&#8217;s aware of the incident and &#8220;will be conducting an internal investigation as to the cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several bus routes that pass the intersection including the 5, 14 and 18 were rerouted following the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa police said Elgin Street\u00a0remains\u00a0closed between Frank Street and Gladstone Avenue, and Frank Street is closed between Elgin and Cartier streets.\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-511807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}