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[Mike K.]

It looks like it was but I can’t confirm that at this point. I expect VicPD to issue a statement at some point.

[DustMagnet]

They knocked down a tree in the process.  Where's the outrage?

[PraiseKek]

Hearing there's been a fatal car crash near the leigh road interchange. Wasn't there just one in that stretch not long ago?

[Mike K.]

Yes, the highway is closed between Leigh Road and Westshore Parkway ...again.

 

The fact that there is no barrier on that bloody curve is insane.

[Sparky]

I am at the Mill Bay ferry terminal. 3:32 pm. There is room for a couple more cars.

[exc911ence]

Yes, the highway is closed between Leigh Road and Westshore Parkway ...again.

 

The fact that there is no barrier on that bloody curve is insane.

 

Apparently the collision was up on Leigh Road, not on the highway? It looks like it was on the highway but their map shows it elsewhere. Sloppy reporting?

 

https://www.goldstre...jnasMryVd-TSfVc

Edited by exc911ence, 03 February 2019 - 07:12 PM.

[Mike K.]

The accident occurred on the TCH, not on Leigh Road. From the RCMP:

Just past 1:00pm on Sunday February 3rd 2019, the West Shore RCMP responded to a head on collision involving two vehicles on Highway 1 near the Leigh Road overpass.

West Shore RCMP are still on scene and would like to advise the public that Highway 1 just North of the Leigh Rd has been shut down in both directions. A detour through West Shore Parkway is available.

This collision resulted in serious life-threatening injuries. As such a Traffic Reconstructionist along with the West Shore RCMP Traffic Unit and General Duty police officers are working to determine the cause of the collision. Please be patient with emergency crews as they work at this location.

Updates will be provided as they come in. If anyone witnessed this collision and has not yet spoken to the West Shore RCMP please call us at 250-474-2264 or report anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

[sebberry]

Some social media comments reporting that there was a fatality.  CHEK's article reads "Emergency officials in  “coroner” uniforms were also at the scene." but falls short of describing the extent of the injuries.

 

The crash looks quite bad and there's a yellow tarp over the driver's area of the car.  

[Victoria Watcher]

24 year old male dead. driver of the acura. 2 others were in that car. 2 in the bmw fine.

[Mike K.]

One of three men killed aboard a runaway Canadian Pacific freight train earlier today was a resident of Victoria, according to the man’s social media accounts.

Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer was a conductor in-training aboard a train with two other CP employees. The train was travelling at twice the speed limit when it derailed near Field, BC, as it exited the world-famous Kicking Horse Pass’ Lower Spiral Tunnel and crashed into the Kicking Horse River below.

Waldenberger-Bulmer and fellow co-workers conductor Dylan Paradis and engineer Andrew Dockrell were part of a Calgary-based crew. The 112-car train was headed to Vancouver with grain and grain products.

[Jackerbie]

A pedestrian struck by a driver in Saanich on Saturday has died. No ID or details released by police, but social media is saying she was a 62 y/o woman from Gordon Head. Via https://www.saanichp...pedestrian-dies

[On the Level]

One of three men killed aboard a runaway Canadian Pacific freight train earlier today was a resident of Victoria, according to the man’s social media accounts.

Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer was a conductor in-training aboard a train with two other CP employees. The train was travelling at twice the speed limit when it derailed near Field, BC, as it exited the world-famous Kicking Horse Pass’ Lower Spiral Tunnel and crashed into the Kicking Horse River below.

Waldenberger-Bulmer and fellow co-workers conductor Dylan Paradis and engineer Andrew Dockrell were part of a Calgary-based crew. The 112-car train was headed to Vancouver with grain and grain products.

Why is the locomotive at the crash site Union Pacific?  Who does the inspections for CP?

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ilway-1.5004622

Edited by On the Level, 05 February 2019 - 12:02 AM.

[Mike K.]

I suppose they have a sharing agreement with UP and run on each other’s track.

[Cassidy]

With a full CP crew, it's likely it was payback for horsepower hours owed to CP by Union Pacific.

 

https://en.wikipedia...Horsepower-hour

[Mike K.]

Interesting. I've often seen CP trains running among UP trains down in the US, but I think this is the first time I've seen a UP loco powering a CP train up in Canada.

 

Now imagine if this train was hauling 100-cars of oil that should have been flowing through a pipeline. Imagine the destruction even 20-cars spilling their load would have had on the Kicking Horse River and its surrounds.

[Victoria Watcher]

good advice here:

https://youtu.be/S-z2FhhWhLk

 

don't stop and wave pedestrians ahead when they do not have  the right of way.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 February 2019 - 09:10 AM.

[DustMagnet]

^ Don't give up the right of way in general, whether it be for a pedestrian or not.  Do what is expected*.

 

* I mean "follow the protocols as designed" not "do whatever you like with no regard to others", although both of those may indeed be expected behaviours. 

[jonny]

Interesting. I've often seen CP trains running among UP trains down in the US, but I think this is the first time I've seen a UP loco powering a CP train up in Canada.

 

Surely the railroads partner quite a bit (but definitely not much between CP & CN, especially in BC!). Interestingly, CP and CN own a large amount of track in the USA. I was surprised when I was down in Louisiana a couple of years back and kept seeing CN trains, but they're one of the big players all the way down the Mississippi. I think CP has track in the prairies, Minnesota, Michigan, the Dakotas, etc.  

 

Now imagine if this train was hauling 100-cars of oil that should have been flowing through a pipeline. Imagine the destruction even 20-cars spilling their load would have had on the Kicking Horse River and its surrounds.

 

Guaranteed some people are secretly hoping for this. 

[Victoria Watcher]

as it is 5 years from now we are going to have wheat growing in that river valley.

[North Shore]

A pedestrian struck by a driver in Saanich on Saturday has died. No ID or details released by police, but social media is saying she was a 62 y/o woman from Gordon Head. Via https://www.saanichp...pedestrian-dies

 Ugh....drove by that scene just after it had happened on Saturday am.  Poor woman was lying on the road at least 20 feet down from the crosswalk that she (presumably) was using.  Seemed to take forever to hear sirens...

Edited by North Shore, 05 February 2019 - 10:48 AM.