4 — Sunday, September 29, 1996 ~ North Shore News

WY truck crash site
scene of devastation

By Robert Galster
and lan Noble

A dirt-laden, runaway
truck killed a pedestrian
and severed two power
poles at noon Friday in
what is becoming a hor-
rifyingly familiar story
here on the North
Shore.

Jady Johnson, a parts clerk at
Wetmore Motors at 22nd and
Marine in West Vancouver, saw
the truck travelling “exception-
ally” quickly southbound on
22nd before the Marine Drive
intersection.

She looked over to Marine
Drive to see if the driver would
get through the intersection
“without hitting anyone.” He
didn’t.

Johnson saw the driver, who
police didn’t identify to press
time, broadside a Toyota 4-
Runner, sending it skyward as
high as the waffic signal lights.
“Tt was very bloody ‘high, she
said.

The ‘sports ‘utility vehicle '
ended up on its side nearly a
block away in an apartment
yard, after crashing through ‘a
hedge.
~ Johnson saw the dirt billow-

ing from the dump truck as she ra

ran toward the accident. -
“It makes you feel kind of

weak when vou see people lying
on the road and smoke coming,
off the dump truck,” she said.
“Someone must have been
badly hurt.”

The crash aftermath present-
ed a grim picture: the dead and
injured were scattered about;
severed power poles knocked
out electricity to a large area of
West Vancouver; the 4-Runner
and a parked Mazda had been
hit, the dump truck lay on its
side and power lines, dirt and
rocks were scattered around it.
Its back brakes were on fire.

West Vancouver resident
Bjorn Bjornson, 58, retired
from a career with the local
B.C. Ambulance Service, was
struck. and killed. Another
pedestrian and the drivers of the
4-Runner and truck were taken
to hospital. The truck driver was
released from hospital Friday.
The two remaining at Lions
Gate Hospital were listed in fair
condition as of Friday after-
noon.

Tony Martin, owner of the
Petro Canada gas station at
Marine Drive and 22nd Street,
said he put out the brake fire.
He was. alerted to the accident
in front of his station by the
sound of crashing telephone

les.

“All we heard was a loud
bang and then ran outside to see
what happened,” said Martin
who then called an ambulance.

“It was so fond...”

“The driver (of the dump
truck) then came running into
the shop louking for a phone,”
said Martin.

Martin told the driver an
ambulance had already been
called and rushed to put out the
fire.

However, before Martin
could make it to the truck he had
to cross amass of downed power
lines on the sidewalk and road.

“[ ran right through the
wires,” said Martin. “Idiot, I
didn’t even think.”

As the News went to press,
the truck driver was being ques-
tioned by police.

For the second time in just
over a year, motor vehicle
inspector Jay Northcott found
himself blaming truck brakes in
a fatal accident. “Preliminary
indications indicate it’s his
brakes,” he said.

A Sept. 13 truck inspection’
in North Vancouver found only |@
six of 18 trucks had effective ;

brakes.

In August 1995, truck driver
Baljinder Singh and Burnaby
resident Wayde Police were
killed after Singh’s brakes failed,
sending his rig careening out of
control down the Cut.

In 1990 the’ brakes failed on
a truck driven by Singh Ubhi.
Two tourists died at the
Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
after their vchicle was struck.

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