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The Regina truck driver accused of striking and killing a woman in a bus shelter told police the traffic light remained green as he travelled through the intersection in court.
Biniam Emaha is charged with dangerous driving causing the death of 19-year-old Marvellous Ugochukwu in 2025.
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It’s alleged that he drove through a red light at the intersection of Dewdney Avenue and Elphinstone Street, which resulted in the fatal crash.
The second day of Emaha’s trial took place at Regina Provincial Court.
A recording of the statement Emaha gave to Regina police was played in the courtroom.
Emaha said he had lived in Canada for just over two years when he gave his statement to police around 4:30 p.m. Oct. 12, 2025.
He said he and his wife came from Eritrea, a country in Eastern Africa, and have two children.
The bus shelter on Dewdney Avenue and Elphinstone Street was destroyed when it was hit by a freight truck in October of 2025. (Gillian Massie/ 980 CJME)
Emaha said he worked as a delivery truck driver contracted by the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
He said he was taking items from the Pasqua Hospital to the Regina General Hospital around noon the day of the crash.
Emaha told the officer the light was green as he approached the intersection at Elphinstone Street and Dewdney Avenue.
He said the light remained green as he drove through the intersection.
Emaha said he struck the grey car, which spun around as the delivery truck veered off Dewdney Avenue.
The bolts on the Dewdney Avenue and Elphinstone Street bus shelter are all that remain after the crash. (Gillian Massie/ 980 CJME)
He said he knew he had hit a bus shelter as the truck came to rest on flattened fence boards and residential lawns.
“Someone turned off my car; I was shocked,” he said.
Emaha wiped his eyes and sat with his hands in his lap in the Regina police investigation room.
“It must be very hard,” the officer said, and Emaha agreed.
City traffic light coordinator says sequence failure ‘not possible’
Photographs presented in court showed the road was slick with rain on the day of the 2025 crash.
Michael Brodt, the City of Regina’s traffic signal coordinator, testified that only a “torrential downpour” or fog could cause the light’s sensors to break down.
He said it was “not possible” for the traffic lights to malfunction when asked by defence lawyer Foster Weisgerber.
Brodt said there are systems, including a malfunction monitoring unit, that prevent the traffic lights from failing.
He said city crews do regular checks and clean the sensors to prevent any breakdowns.
Brodt said there was no indication the lights had malfunctioned the day of the fatal collision on Elphinstone Street and Dewdney Avenue.
Brodt said crews manually inspect the lights to make sure they are timing out properly.
He did not know when the light’s sensors were last inspected before the October 2025 crash.
