16 - North Shore News -— Sunday. April 16, 2000

Land Rover driver sought in hit and rum lub tums to

Katharine Hamer

News Reporter
thamer@nsnews.com
THE night of Friday,
March 10 is one that
Jaclyn Brady will
always remember.

At) 11:30) p.m. that
evening, the 20-year-old was
_ hit by a dark, late-model Land

Rover as. she was walking
across St. George’s Avenue at
the corner of 17th Street.
The driver took off, leav-
. ing Brady and a friend ying i in
_the road.
 Amale friend walking with
the pair managed to step out

of the way in time to avoid
getting hit.

Brady’s friend Jennifer suf-
fered a knee injury and con-
cussion, but “the brunt of it
hit Jaclyn,” says her father
Gary. “It threw her 25 feet.”

North Vancouver RCMP
officers were on the scene
almost immediately, and
Jaclyn and Jennifer were
transported to Lions Gate
Hospital.

“I don’t really remember
anything from that night,”
says Jaclyn. “It all happened
so quickly.”

After suffering from bro-
ken bones, concussion, bruis-
es, and Jacerations, Jaclyn is

still in a wheelchair with a
severe knee injury.

She has “a brace on her
leg, a pin in her ankle, and a
pin in her knee,” according to
Gary Brady.

“It’s not the Breatest,”
Jaclyn says. “1 can’t do any-
thing | could do before. tm
very dependent cn peuple. I
was supposed to be zoing on
to crutches but +
hurts, so I have te
gets betrer.~

Before her accident, Jaclyn
had been looking for a job.

With a good sjx months of
physiotherapy ahead of her,
she’s had to put that on hold
for now.

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“I was in the wrong place
at the wrong time,” savs
Jaclyn, who doesn't drive her-
self. “It totally woke me up. I
was always careful, bur now
I'm ever: more aware (of uaf-
fic dangers). I notice bad dri-
vers on the streets. [ think
people tend to go a little too
fast.”

The Bradys are hoping that
the driver of the Land Rover
will come forward and confess
to his or her role in the acci-
dent.

“I don’t know if I want to
meet them face-to-face,” says
Jaclyn, “but I want to know
who it was. Pm sure we're
probably on their minds.

They're very lucky they didn’t
kill me. I hope their con-
science is bad.”

Ic’s been a month since the
accident, and police are still
trying to track down posible
leads.

Gary Brady said he uader-
stood that a couple of vehicles
which matched the descrip-
tion of the one that hit his
daughter were being investi-
gated.

The Land Rover had dam-
age to the windshield and a
front headlight.

To press time, the RCMP
officer in charge of the case
was not available for com-

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Erin Stringer
Contributing Writer

A defunct athletic clab
in Lower Capilano has a
brand new purpose.

The Capilano West Athletic
Club on Fullerton Ave. had
been sitting empty after its clo-
sure in 1997. -

Irs now being used as a
film studio for The Replicant,
an upcoming Jean- Claude Van
Damme flick.

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the West Vancouver company
that owns the. facility,
announced in June 1997 that’
the athletic complex would be” /
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The club had been opera

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