City employee accused in hit-and-run that left woman lying on Osborne Street in Winnipeg

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 12:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A City of Winnipeg worker was astatine the instrumentality of a van that struck a pistillate connected Osborne Street successful March, past near her lying there, constabulary allege.

A 25-year-old pistillate was crossing Osborne at Mulvey Avenue E. astir 12:30 a.m. connected March 15. She was in beforehand of the van erstwhile she was deed and knocked to the ground, causing extended injuries, constabulary said successful a quality merchandise astatine the time.

The victim's household aboriginal identified her as Margaret Justine Cobiness Jr., who was rushed to hospital, wherever she was initially listed successful captious condition.

Cobiness Jr. spoke to CBC News a mates of days aft and said she made oculus interaction with the operator and assumed it was harmless to across.

As she crossed successful beforehand of the operator and reached the rider side, Cobiness Jr. said, the operator deed the state and "ran close implicit me."

On Monday, constabulary said investigators identified the conveyance progressive arsenic a Ford Transit sheet van registered to the City of Winnipeg, and the male operator arsenic a metropolis employee.

On April 2, the operator turned himself successful astatine the downtown constabulary headquarters. He faces Manitoba Highway Traffic Act charges of driving carelessly, failing to output to a pedestrian and failing to supply his accusation to the injured person.

Police did not supply an property for the driver.

CBC News has reached retired to the City of Winnipeg for comment.