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[LJ]

Merryman Drive renamed to Deadman's curve.

[Victoria Watcher]

Jeanine Dodds, a Mayne Island representative with Islands Trust, called the deaths “a community tragedy” for the Gulf Island, home to about 1,200 people

She said she knew both men who died, who have five children between them.


https://www.timescol...r-crash-7035340




She knows the men. They are intertwined with the island. Yet the newspaper article can’t or won’t name them.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 May 2023 - 04:33 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The two men were in a 1995 Firebird, which failed to negotiate a curve, went off the road to the right and hit a tree, Clark said.

He said the men, who were in their 40s, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have said alcohol and speed may have been contributing factors in the crash






I suspect we all thought that.

[Mike K.]

I hear drinking and driving is a big problem on the GIs.

[Matt R.]

Bigger than elsewhere on Vancouver island?

[Mike K.]

Yeah.

1,200 residents. Two more just died in an alcohol related crash. That’s 1 out of 600 dead just this year.

[Matt R.]

It’s not something I see in my circle here, but I’m sure it’s common. It was common in Victoria too when I lived there.

[pontcanna]

Request For Witnesses In Motor Vehicle Incident Involving A Cyclist 

 

Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 

 

File: #23-18452 

 

Victoria, BC – Investigators are asking for your assistance in the investigation of a motor vehicle incident involving a cyclist that occurred earlier this morning. 

 

Just after 6:30 a.m. today officers were called to the scene of a motor vehicle incident involving a cyclist near the intersection of Bay Street and Vancouver Street. The cyclist was taken to hospital and the area of Bay Street between Cook Street and Quadra Street remained closed until approximately 12:30 p.m. 

 

Investigators are asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has dash cam footage to contact the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654, extension 1. 

 

This file remains under investigation and further details cannot be provided at this time. 

 

[Victoria Watcher]

Family members of a California man said it was no surprise his final act was one of compassion, after he exited his car at a busy intersection in order to help a mother duck and her ducklings cross the road but was himself struck and killed.

 

When he spotted the ducks, Casey Rivara stopped his car at a red light and got out to help them. Rivara made sure traffic in all directions was stopped, witnesses said, then escorted the duck and her babies to the other side of the street around 8.15pm last Thursday in Rocklin, north-east of Sacramento.

 

“All the ducks made it safely across,” said Jude Peterson, 11, who was watching with a carpool group after track practice. “He did something amazing.”

 

 

https://www.theguard...ucks-road-cross

 

 

 

Vehicle takes flight and crashes into side of house near Halifax

 

Residents of a home in Fall River, N.S., were awoken on Sunday morning to the shock that a vehicle had just driven into the side of their house.ccording to RCMP, officers responded to a call at about 3:30 a.m. that a Jeep Cherokee had lost control and driven off Highway 2, went through a fence, and crashed into a home, wedging itself into the side of the property.“The driver of the Cherokee is a 17-year-old female, she was uninjured and taken by ambulance to the hospital as a precaution, she was the only occupant in the vehicle,” said Cpl. Chris Marshall, public information officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP.He said that the homeowners were also safe, as there was nobody in the area of the house where the vehicle crashed.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 May 2023 - 08:16 AM.

[pontcanna]

BC Highway Patrol impounds speeding Ferrari in District of Malahat

Island District, BC Highway Patrol, Road Safety Unit

2023-05-31 

File #BCHP CRD IRSU 2023-888

On May 21, 2023 at approximately 10:00am, an officer with BC Highway Patrol – Capital Regional District – Integrated Road Safety Unit (BCHP-CRD-IRSU) was conducting speed enforcement in an unmarked police vehicle on Highway # 1 near Aspen Road in Malahat, BC, when she observed a newer model white and black Ferrari with Alberta licence plates traveling at a high rate of speed in the Northbound lanes. The Ferrari had just passed several vehicles and quickly caught the attention of the officer who established that the Ferrari was traveling at a speed of 137 km/h within the posted 80 km/h zone.

After bringing the vehicle safely to a stop, the officer identified the driver as an Alberta woman in her 20’s and she was issued a violation ticket under the BC Motor Vehicle Act for excessive speeding. The owner, a man in his 30’s also from Alberta arrived at the scene shortly thereafter to collect the driver as well as the paperwork indicating that his vehicle had been impounded for seven days.

 

 

BC Highway Patrol would like to remind motorists that May is High-Risk Driving Awareness month in BC, and police agencies throughout the Province are making our highways safer together by stepping up enforcement of unsafe driving behaviours.

Released by

Cpl. Mike Moore
Media Relations Officer
BC Highway Patrol

 

[todd]

^ massive dork.

[pontcanna]

Driver on Trans-Canada Highway goes off road, flips onto Burnside Road W

Jun. 8, 2023 

 

 

A mechanical issue resulted in a driver on the Trans-Canada Highway veering off-road and landing on Burnside Road West below the highway Thursday afternoon.

Cst. Markus Anastasiades with Saanich Police says as the driver was approaching the bridge over Burnside Road West, when an error with the steering component of the vehicle resulted in the crash.

The vehicle then went down the embankment, flipped, and slid across the road and stopped at the sidewalk.

The driver is in hospital with serious but not-life-threatening injuries.

More: https://www.cheknews...road-w-1155630/

 

[pontcanna]

Vehicle rollover in Victoria closes part of Bay and Blanshard Street

Jun. 8, 2023 

 

 

Emergency services are tending to a vehicle rollover next to the Bay Street Armoury in Victoria.

At around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, emergency services were called out to an area near Bay and Blanshard streets for a crash involving two cars.

Police say one of the vehicles was travelling northbound on Blanshard Street when it crossed over the median and struck a vehicle heading in the opposite director.

Emergency services had to extract one of the drivers from the wreck.

More: https://www.cheknews...street-1155602/

[Nparker]

It appears gravity had a gripe with local drivers today.

[LJ]

You need a fair amount of speed to cause a rollover like this, it shouldn't happen if they were going the speed limit IMO.

[Mike K.]

Oh you’d be surprised. A vehicle will roll at very low speed if it catches a curb just right or another vehicle accidentally pit manoeuvres it.

[Victoria Watcher]

That’s quite something.

[pontcanna]

@ChiefManak

Written 1000’s of tickets but never heard this before. MC using the narrow shoulder of road to pass long, long line of cars stopped in heavy traffic. Reason - "I’m first-aid trained & I always do this in case there’s a crash. Someone could be having a heart attack." Ticket issued.

 

 

 

[todd]

“..Wednesday morning, Emerson was sprawled on the grassy boulevard near the marina while police cars with flashing lights protected him from passing cars…”: https://www.timescol...oak-bay-7126309

Edited by todd, 10 June 2023 - 11:20 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Driver takes out beach benches on notorious Victoria ‘drag race strip’


https://www.vicnews....rag-race-strip/


“I live on Dallas Rd, and the number of cars I witness speeding by at highway speeds is insane,” Blandford wrote. “The limit is 30km/h! Some folks drag race this strip as well. We need more speed/traffic enforcement in the city, where the vulnerable road users are.”







Pretty sure almost all drag racing requires at least two lanes heading in the same direction.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 June 2023 - 09:03 AM.