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'Much-loved' and experienced car racer Shane Navin has died in a horror crash at the Targa Tasmania rally on Friday.   The 68-year-old driver from New South Wales rolled his 1979 Mazda RX7 amid heavy rain and slippery conditions.  His co-driver Glenn Evans miraculously survived the crash and emerged from the wreckage uninjured.   Navin's tragic death is now the third fatality at the world-renowned rally event in last ten years.   Much-loved racer and experienced car racer Shane Navin (pictured) has died in a horror crash at the Targa Tasmania rally on Friday The 68-year-old rally drive...

  NANAIMO -- Over the past two weekends, the Canadian Forces have provided flare illumination to ground search and rescue crews on Vancouver Island during night rescue missions on top of two mountain peaks. On Saturday night, 442 Squadron out of Comox assisted Nanaimo Search and Rescue as they helped an injured hiker on. Mt Benson. One week before that, a similar scene took place on Mount Arrowsmith as Port Alberni Search and Rescue crews needed assistance to rescue three injured hikers. “They are doing the heavy work, literally lifting people down mountains,” says Major Ryan Port o...

  VICTORIA -- Three lost hikers, two of whom were seriously injured, were rescued by search teams from Mount Arrowsmith on Vancouver Island on Sunday. Search manager Dave Poulsen of the Alberni Valley Rescue Squad says the hikers called for assistance around 3 p.m. Poulson says the trio were inexperienced and had not attempted to climb Mount Arrowsmith before. The hikers had taken a popular trail, Judges Route, up the mountain but had lost the trail coming back down. “They had ended up in an area that was quite technical and one of them sustained a fall as a result,” said Poulsen.