A Calgary mom is getting a chance to say ‘thanks’ to a bus driver credited with preventing a tragedy.
Calgary Transit driver Mark Boody was heading east on Heritage Drive Tuesday and stopped near the LRT station to allow a mom, Kerry Urban and her four-year-old daughter to walk their bike across the street.
Boody noticed that the vehicle coming up in the left lane didn’t look like it was going to stop, so he laid on the horn.
“When he really laid on the horn, I stopped kind of at the edge of the bus as the car screeched to a halt right in front of me,” Urban said.
“I could see her face and her scarf and her phone. We were that close.”
Boody suggested inattentiveness is an increasingly common problem on Calgary roads.
“The biggest issue that has changed in the 21 years is that everyone has a cellphone now. Twenty-one years ago, not everyone had a brick that they carried with them. That’s really the only noticeable difference in my mind,” Boody said.
After the incident the Urbans continued on to the park and the bus driver kept going on his route.
It was only later, said Urban, that it really sank in – just how close they had come to being hit.
That’s when the family contacted Calgary Transit so they could put her in touch with Boody to say thanks.