A Point Park University shuttle bus driver who was hit by a Port Authority bus on Oct. 18 died from his injuries over the weekend.Vernon Benson, 70, of Wilkinsburg, died at 10:17 a.m. at UPMC Mercy Hospital on Saturday, Oct. 30, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office.            Benson was crossing Wood Street at the intersection of Boulevard of the Allies when, according to Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie, he walked directly in front of the inbound bus. According to Ritchie, the light was green for the bus operator.            Benson died of an intracranial hemorrhage due to blunt force trauma to the head, according to a spokesman for the Medical Examiner’s office. The manner of death was ruled an accident.             The driver has not been charged or issued any citations because evidence and video of the accident did not warrant such action, Ritchie said.            “We operate a lot of vehicles every day. It’s inevitable that drivers get into accidents,” he said.            Ritchie added that accidents like this one can be “traumatic” for the drivers.            The Port Authority offers counseling services after situations like these, but Ritchie declined to comment on whether the driver involved in this particular incident was currently utilizing any of those services.            “It’s very tragic,” Ritchie said.            Benson had worked for Point Park since October 2001. He retired from the U.S. Postal Service and was at one time a driver of large busses in California, according to Mike Morgan, one of Benson’s co-workers and a university shuttle driver, as well.            Morgan will remember Benson for being a “good guy [who] worked hard all his life.”            “I was shocked that it happened,” he said. “We’re saddened.”            Morgan said Benson had a “wisdom about him” and that he was often “direct and to the point.” He said the details of the accident took him and his colleagues by surprise.            “Any time you lose an employee, it’s sad,” said William Cameron, vice president of operations for the Physical Plant, the department that operates the university’s fleet of shuttles.            He said he and his staff had been prepared for the worst possible outcome.            “People had the mindset that death may occur,” he said, citing his understanding of the severity of Benson’s injuries.            Benson is survived by his wife, three children, stepdaughter and 10 grandchildren, according to his obituary, published in the Nov. 2 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. No member of his family could immediately be reached for comment.            Benson will be buried at Homewood Cemetery today.            The intersection of the Boulevard of the Allies and Wood Street is very heavily traveled by pedestrians during peak school hours, as it serves as a major route between Point Park’s campus building. “It’s a big intersection [and] people have to really pay attention,” Cameron said.            He said it is natural for pedestrians to check only one direction on a one-way street before crossing, but they have to be mindful of the bus lane in the opposite direction on Wood Street. The bus that struck Benson was traveling in that lane.            Despite the large amount of pedestrians, the intersection does not have any sort of pedestrian crossing light system. Walkers usually follow traffic lights, which are meant to direct vehicles.            However, even when the light is green for cars and pedestrians to cross the Boulevard, cars from Wood Street can make left and right turns onto the Boulevard, often competing with pedestrians.            Cameron said the intersection will soon be updated with new pedestrian lighting as part of a grant from PENNDot. The project is part of the Wood Street Corridor initiative.            He said the updates will make the intersection similar to the ones along Penn Avenue in the Cultural District where streets have multiple pedestrian signals, some of which are equipped with speakers that indicate when walkers with visual impairments may cross the street.             Cameron could not provide an exact date for the completion of the project, but the time frame is between a year and a year-and-a-half from the present.            For now, Cameron advises students and anyone crossing the street to be aware of his or her surroundings, a sentiment echoed by Kelsey Bellanca, a freshman dance major at the university.