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[Cats4Hire]

Sorry looks like it was Douglas not Saanich. My mom's friend just said "the road behind Best Buy" and my mom assumed Saanich. 

[pontcanna]

Pedestrian killed in Saanich crash

June 1, 2021

A pedestrian is dead after they were struck by a vehicle in Saanich late Tuesday afternoon.

 

More: https://vancouverisl...crash-1.5452235

[Mike K.]

Someone wrote us to say there was an argument between two people, one person got shoved and ended up getting crushed by a recycling truck.

[Victoria Watcher]

that’s one way to definitively win an argument.

score that one 1-0.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 June 2021 - 04:00 AM.

[sukika]

The day this incident occurred, someone made a now-deleted post on Reddit asking about lawyers for a minor, saying it was in self-defence and that the attacker died via vehicle.

[Rob Randall]

Sounds similar to that incident on Pandora years ago. A guy got into a verbal confrontation with a street person who got shoved and fell into the street and was hit by a car.

[Cats4Hire]

The day this incident occurred, someone made a now-deleted post on Reddit asking about lawyers for a minor, saying it was in self-defence and that the attacker died via vehicle.

Saanich police say the other man was arrested at the scene so unless he was on Reddit in the holding cell it's probably a coincidence https://twitter.com/...231691734577154

[Victoria Watcher]

Sounds similar to that incident on Pandora years ago. A guy got into a verbal confrontation with a street person who got shoved and fell into the street and was hit by a car.

was anyone charged?

[Rob Randall]

I don't think so. It was a young business man or something. A street person, a young woman I think mouthed off at him, triggering a shoving match. Ten years ago?

[sukika]

Saanich police say the other man was arrested at the scene so unless he was on Reddit in the holding cell it's probably a coincidence https://twitter.com/...231691734577154

 

I didn't see the posts before they were deleted by the OP, but the comments in another thread indicated it was a family member asking on the minor's behalf.  I don't doubt that it could be a coincidence at all, especially since the tweet doesn't say it was a minor (although male doesn't mean adult ). 

Edited by sukika, 03 June 2021 - 12:56 PM.

[Mike K.]

I heard someone got stabbed during that altercation. What is the stabbee, or the stabber who died?

 

Saanich councillor De Vries made an odd series of twitter posts speaking about drivers killing people, not cars. I don't think he knew the person had been shoved and assume it was a pedestrian walking down the street or crossing the street/

[sebberry]

I heard someone got stabbed during that altercation. What is the stabbee, or the stabber who died?

 

Saanich councillor De Vries made an odd series of twitter posts speaking about drivers killing people, not cars. I don't think he knew the person had been shoved and assume it was a pedestrian walking down the street or crossing the street/

 

There's a post on Reddit from someone claiming to be in the area stating the deceased was being somewhat aggressive, but the youth charged with the manslaughter was the only one who used physical violence.

 

It's pointless to speculate based on some internet posts.  Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable as it is.  

 

Devries' posts were sure odd.

[UDeMan]

this is the one on Pandora from 2009

 

https://www.timescol...appeal-1.662220

 

A Victoria man has lost his appeal of a manslaughter charge for pushing a woman onto the road at a downtown intersection in 2009, where she was crushed beneath a bus.

 

Christopher Michael Groves, 25, was sentenced in December 2011 to a year in prison, as well as two years probation and 250 hours of community service with homeless causes. A B.C. Supreme Court jury found that Ariana May Simpson, a 20-year-old known to Victoria’s street community, fell under the wheels of the bus at the corner of Quadra Street and Pandora Avenue after a push from Groves.

[Rob Randall]

Weird:

 

From the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report: motor vehicle traffic fatalities in the United States rose to a 13-year high in 2020 despite a decrease in overall driving due to the COVID-19 pandemic

 

*Occupant ejections +20%
*Unrestrained passengers +15%
*Speeding-related +11%

 

https://www.upi.com/.../2551622758699/

[Victoria Watcher]

Potentially life-altering crash under investigation by VicPD

Driver arrested at the scene and four people sent to hospital, two with serious injuries

 

 

A single vehicle crash that sent four people to hospital early Sunday morning is under investigation by the Victoria Police Department.

 

The driver was arrested at the scene and transported to cells. Police say the cause of the crash remains under investigation.

 

Just after midnight in the early morning of June 6, the vehicle crashed into two buildings at the intersection of Fisgard and Blanshard streets. Five people were in the vehicle.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....ation-by-vicpd/

 

 

 

 

Two of the occupants suffered potentially life-altering injuries in the collision and remain in hospital. The other occupants who were transported to hospital suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated and released.

 

Two buildings were damaged in the crash.

 

The driver of the vehicle was arrested and transported to cells. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

 

https://vicpd.ca/202...-investigation/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 June 2021 - 09:59 AM.

[Nparker]

...the vehicle crashed into two buildings at the intersection of Fisgard and Blanshard streets...

Romeo's or Serious Coffee?

[Victoria Watcher]

or both?

[Victoria Watcher]

Romeo's or Serious Coffee?

 

no photos on twitter.  why don't you trek down there and see what you can see?

[Nparker]

no photos on twitter.  why don't you trek down there and see what you can see?

If I get a chance I will.

[pontcanna]