During the testimony of Rideau Transit Maintenance CEO Mario Guerra, Ottawa city attorney Catherine Gleason-Mercier showed the order video of the train leaving the Tremblay station before it derailed. “Do you recognize the gentleman who just got off the train?” asks Gleason-Mercier. “Is this Mr. Steven Nanton, the maintenance manager?” Guerra agrees that the man in the video is Nadon, Rideau Transit Maintenance’s director of maintenance. Gleason-Mercier said Nadon told an attorney for the commission that he “heard a popping sound below him and thought a wire was missing or something was being dragged and so he told his wife to get down because he didn’t think it was going to I can do it.” Gleason-Mercier then asks Guerra, “You would agree with me that Mr. Nadon got off the train but did not take any action to stop that train, did not hit the passenger emergency intercom, correct? He didn’t get his foot in the door.” Guerra says he felt there was no need to take such action as Nadon could not have known the train would derail. Follow procedures bringing sounds and attention to maintenance crews. In an interview with a commission lawyer earlier this year, Nadon said he was on the train before it derailed with his family, including his grandchildren, who were riding it for the first time. “We got it from Blair … between St-Laurent and Tremblay. I had heard a snapping sound below me and thought a cable had come loose or something was dragging. So I said to my wife, “We’re going to get off at the next station because I don’t think this train is going to make it to our final destination, it’s going to be pulled out of service.” commission. “So we pulled into the train station at Tremblay, and I was calling the control center to say, ‘Take this train out of service,’ when the train left. And as he left, he dropped ballast all over the platform. I knew right away that it had derailed.” Nadon said he stayed on the phone trying to stop the train. Alstom’s lawyer, Michael Valo, also shows the committee a new video showing the train leaving Tremblay station on September 19. Black dust and ballast from the track can be seen scratching the vehicle. “I think the dust and flare should have been visible, because it’s pretty straight in that area,” Guerra says. Valo then referred to the derailment investigation report. Valo pointed out that carelessness was identified by OC Transpo as contributing factors, as well as an “odor of human waste” inside the light rail vehicle. Earlier in the public hearings, OC Transpo’s Troy Map says the train smelled of human waste. The cause of the derailment was later determined to be loose bolts that were not properly secured. Public hearings conclude on Thursday. The Commission’s report is due on 31 August to the Department for Transport, but there is an option to extend that deadline to 31 November
