CBC Employee Dies After Hit and Run
Dianne Trottier, a producer with CBC News, died following a hit-and-run collision in Fredericton over the weekend.
Trottier was hit by a car while crossing an intersection in her motorized wheelchair late Saturday night. The driver of the car fled the scene. Trottier was seriously injured and later died in hospital police told CBC News.
Police are searching for the driver of the vehicle, which they say would be visibly damaged.
Trottier usually worked as producer for Newsworld in Toronto, but had been temporarily posted to Fredericton. One of her university classmates described her as a “spitfire”. “I graduated with Dianne at Ryerson and she was definitely a spitfire – someone not easily forgotten. She will be missed,” Janis Ramsay wrote today.
The CBC News story on the incident is here.
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R.I.P Dianne Trottier
Deepest condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.
I am quite shocked and sad to hear the news. I graduated with Dianne at Ryerson and she was definitely a spitfire – someone not easily forgotten. She will be missed and my thoughts are with her family. My hope is that our friends in the media and the public will help bring justice to this case.
Over the course of fifty years of writing for newspapers and television, it has been my good luck to meet some truly remarkable people. High up on that list is Dianne Trottier, who once shared a desk with me at CTV News — a place she made a whole lot duller by moving on to the CBC. Though the fates dealt her the unkind hand that put her in a wheelchair, she never once let on in word or deed that she was the least bit disabled. She was really good at her job. Tenacious, demanding of herself, with a wicked sense of humour and a cackle of a laugh that would launch a wave of smiles across a newsroom. (And, oh yeah, you’d better be ducking if you somehow managed to peeve her off.) All of which is a way of saying there’s a lot less to like about the world tonight after some skunk in a runaway car snuffed out so bright a light.
My most sincere sympathy and sadness to Diane’s friends, colleagues and family. I would sometimes see Diane zipping through the newsroom in her motorized chair in the background shots on Newsworld. I worked with her at CTV and CBC and she was a riot — She was funny, and smart and full of beans. She had her own condo and it was specially made for her — with low counter tops and the rest. Even though she sat a little lower than the rest of us — she was someone we all looked up to. I am heartbroken this morning reading this news.