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by Castlegar Source on Tuesday Apr 27 2021
RCMP and the BC Coroners Service are investigating the circumstances surrounding a collision between two commercial transport vehicles that claimed the life of a man Monday evening.
On April 26, just before 6 p.m., Logan Lake RCMP responded to a collision involving two semi-tractor trailer units on Highway 5 in the area of Surrey Sussex Lake Road. Emergency crews arrived on scene to find two commercial transport vehicles with extensive damage. A BC Emergency Health Services air ambulance helicopter also responded to the call.
“Preliminary findings indicate that both transport trucks were travelling in the eastbound lanes of Highway 5, when one commercial vehicle rear-ended the other,” said Cpl. Jesse O’Donaghey, spokesman for the RCMP Southeast District. “The driver and sole occupant of the rear transport truck, a 64-year-old Aldergrove man, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased by emerg
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Driver, trucking company charged in fatal crash in southwest Edmonton
A truck driver and transport company are facing with charges in the death of a 36-year-old Edmonton woman who was killed last October after a tandem dolly became detached from a semi-trailer and struck a minivan.
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Posted: Apr 23, 2021 7:20 AM MT | Last Updated: April 23
Meghan Weis, 36, died in southwest Edmonton in October when her minivan was hit by a tandem dolly.(Meghan Weis/Facebook)
A truck driver and transport company are facing charges in the death of a 36-year-old Edmonton woman who was killed last October after a tandem dolly became detached from a semi-trailer and struck a minivan.
Apr 08, 2021
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Michigan State set out to answer the question in the title of this post. Generally, they found, the answer is yes, particularly with respect to improved equipment compliance, more durable than improvements in driver behavior, as it were. That is, owner-operator and fleet investment in equipment in anticipation of Roadcheck and other events proves longer-lasting in the numbers than any changes in driving behaviors that are measurable.
Old hand Mike Mustang Crawford and his independent business won t be on the road May 4-6 this year, which just so happens to coincide with the annual Roadcheck event of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. For years he s used the time in a manner that feels in sync with what an announced inspection spree intends to incentivize. I take my truck in and have the shop go over it, he said, including performing any needed maintenance on the 1994 Freightliner.