RARE EERSTE ENTE EE NEWS BRIEFS 4 . Boat fire A SUSPECTED arson fire on Feb. 5 destroyed a l4-foot (41n) bout located in the driveway of a residence at 8726 Bnebell De. near Kagle Harbour in West Vancouver, West Vancouver Police ure investiguding the 4 an, incident. No one was reported injured ia the fire, wecording fo a West Vancouver Fire Department spokesman. Fire damage was Hinited to the boat, Speeders slowed SPEEDERS NEAR the Eagle Ridge brake cheek station on the Upper Ceveis Highway will be encountering West Vancouver Police more offen. The police increased enforcement on the section of road recently, The area is sometimes congested with ferry traffic and commercial vehictes leaving the brake check station, West Vancouver Police stopped a 21-year-old Nanaimo man who was clocked on Feb. 2 driving 156 kin-h in the 60 kim-h zone. The man is scheduled to appear in West Vancouver Provincial court on March 9 in connection with charges of excessive speeding, driving without a licence and dri- ving while prohibited. Driver injured A 21-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver woman was injured Feb, | after her car was broadsided by a five-ton truck in West Vancouver. ; The woman was travelling east on Fulton Avenue through the 15th Street intersection when her Datsun 2402 collided with the commercial truck, according to a West Vancouver Police spokesman. The truck was travelling south, down the hill. : The Datsun driver was taken to Lions Gate Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. - The truck driver was charged with failing to stop at a stop sign. ‘The truck was seized for a complete inspection by a Motor Vehicle Branch commercial vehicle inspector. Rush-hoar traffic was slowed down near the intersec- tion as a result of the 4 p.m. accident. Location clarified IN AN article published on Sunday, Jan. 16 in the North Shore News, North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Gene Slobod’s seven-month experience in the former Yugoslavia was described as occurring in captured Croatian territory held by Croatian Serbs. The area is now named the Serbian Republic of Krajina. Se "94 UW Coroner examines death at hospital THE REGIONAL coroner's office is nvestigauing the apparent dan, 27 saicide af a -yearald wont after she fell froma fourth floor balcony at Lions Gate Hospital (LGHI. By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter The dead woman. Lisa Mathews, was admitted to hospital on Jin, 26 fo be treated for a med. ication overdose. The Surrey woman was being treated on a medical ward. LG! president Bob Siith said iis the decision of the doctor its to which area of the hospital a patient is housed. Coroner Mary Lou Merner said Mathews told nurses she was hav. ing trouble sleeping and requested at approximately 3 a.m. that she be allowed to smoke a cigarette, Mathews was last scen by nurs- es approximately 30> minutes before the fatal fall, according to Merner. “She was checked [requently. said Merner. : Smith said it is difficult to deter- mine-in some cases whether a patient is suicidal or just secking attention with a suicide attempt “Tt really comes down to the physician's judgment.” said Smith. He added that Mathews was being treated at the hospital for’ medical reasons. Smith said Mathews’ death involved the first apparent suicide by a hospital patient in six years. He sais another person commit- ted suicide by leaping from one of the hospital's floors during that time, but the person was not a patient, Merner said the coroner's office is gathering reports on the incident. 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