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2 ERICA O’DWYER (left) and Barbara Armour, co-chairmen of the board of the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau, are up to their chins in knitted booties, toques, socks and
y sweaters. ‘his year’s Knit Your Bit campaign garnered more than 709 knitted pieces which will be distributed to needy families on the North Shore this holiday season.

Woman survives five-car pile-up

HEAVY RAINFALL and blustery weather mixed with
driver error spelled near disaster for drivers on North Shore

streets Monday.

A Whistler woman miraculously
escaped with her life following a
five-car motor vehicle accident in-
volving a head-on collision early
Monday morning on the Squamish

. Highway near Lions Bay.

The driver of 2 north-bound van
fost control of the vehicle just after
6 a.m. in heavy rain on a blind
curve 100 metres north of Alberta

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

The van veered across the centre
line and collided with a south-
bound car driven by Whistler resi-
dent Gail Morr’son.

“It happened on that dreadful
corner just by Lions Bay,’’ Mor-
rison said, who was on her way in-
to town to Visit her parents. ‘I was

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almost around the corner and the
van caine for me: It just appeared
out of nowhere.”

The van smacked the front
driver’s side of Morrison's Toyota
Tercel wagon, ground alongside
the car and then smashed into the
car travelling behind her.

Two other cars piled into the
wreckage before it was all over.

Morrison was trapped in her car,
suffering a broken left leg and
head abrasions.

Lions Bay firefighters brought in
the jaws of life to extricate Mor-

rison, who says she feels lucky to
be alive: ‘There are horseshoes
there somewhere."”

Morrison was rushed to Lions
Gate Hospital by Lions Bay Pro-
vincial Ambulance Service, and is
now in good condition. There were
no other injuries sustained in the
accident by other drivers or pas-
sengers.

Squamish RCMP have charged
the driver of the van under Section
149 (c) of the provincial Motor
Vehicle Act for driving too fast for
conditions. The charge cames with

a three point penalty. Police have
not released the name of the
driver.

Crews working on the closed
section of highway construction
along the route opened the high-
way Monday afternoon to allow
Morrison's husband to visit her at
LGH.

Two separate accidents yester-
day on Low Level Road in North
Vancouver caused approximately
$10,000 damage to three vehicles
and sent a Vancouver woman to
LGH with abdominal injuries.

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