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The Crown has rested its case in the trial of a man accused of striking and killing a woman in a bus shelter.
Biniam Emaha is charged with dangerous driving causing the death of 19-year-old Marvellous Ugochukwu on Oct. 12, 2025.
Emaha, who was behind the wheel of a freight truck, allegedly drove through a red light, hitting a car and then the bus shelter.
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Lawyers will return to make final arguments on Dec. 8 in Regina Provincial Court.
Sgt. Tanner Maurice, a Regina police crash reconstructionist, testified there was no evidence Emaha urgently braked after the crash.
“The collision was caused by the truck not obeying the red light,” he said, citing a report he prepared.
Maurice told the court he calculated the delivery truck was travelling at 58 kilometres per hour at the time of the crash.
After the truck hit the grey car, he said it slowed to 50 km/h.
Maurice said if Emaha had urgently braked after the first collision, the truck would have stopped one metre short of the bus shelter.
A video recording of Emaha giving his statement to police was shown in court.
He stated that he remembered hitting the car, swerving the truck away and crushing the bus shelter.
Emaha said he saw someone in the transit shelter as he went over it.
“Someone turned off my car; I was shocked,” he said.
Emaha said the light was green when he went through the intersection.
Elijah Stonechild, the driver of the grey car that was struck, said there was little time to react as he turned onto Dewdney Avenue from Elphinstone Street.
“I looked to my right, and I knew it was too late,” he said. “I could just brace.”
Stonechild said he heard no honking or yelling to alert him to the crash beforehand.
Michael Brodt, the City of Regina’s traffic signal coordinator, said it was “not possible” for the traffic lights at the intersection to malfunction.
He said crews manually inspect the lights to make sure they are timing out properly.
