An Alberta school bus driver has been fined $2,000 for an accident that killed a six-year-old boy.
Joseph Allen, who is 62, pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to yield to a pedestrian under the Traffic Safety Act.
A Criminal Code charge of careless driving was withdrawn.
Thomas Wedman was struck and killed last September while crossing a street on his way to school in St. Albert, just north of Edmonton.
He had just started Grade 2 at Ecole Marie Poburan, a French immersion Catholic elementary school.
St. Albert city council decided earlier this year to conduct a safety review of intersections around all of its 25 schools.
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