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Blaze destroys
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Katal MVAs unsolve

THREE CASES involving
four deaths due to motor
vehicle accidents in North
Vancouver last year remain
unresolved.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

According to a North Van-
couver RCMP spokesman, each of
the cases awaits a decision by the
North Vancouver Crown counsel
office of whether or not to lay
charges in connection with the ac-
cidents.

Early on fuly 14, 1990, two
North Vancouver women, 24-
year-old) Lisa Maier and her 19-
year-old sister Linda Miner, died
after the Volkswaven Beetie they
were Cravelling in was broadsided
by wo vehicles, The Maier car
burst into Flames ato the intersee-
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AN EXPLOSIVE fire ripped through a North Vancouver auto repair shop Friday morning. North Vancouver District Fire Department
firefighters were called to Salish Auto Haus, located in the 1500-block of Pemberton Avenue. The fire destroyed the auto shop and
at least one car. According to a fire department spokesman, 15 vehicles, including BMW, Mercedes and Audi cars, were damaged.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Police wait for charges to be laid in
three car accidents that killed four

and Berkley Road.

Anna Kilian, a close friend of
Linda Maier, is one of several
people who regularly place flowers
at the scene of the fatal accident
on Mount) Seymour Parkway.
Kilian attended school with Linda
Maier and lived with her and three
other women.

She witnessed the accident
aftermath,

“To had just gone to bed and
they had all gone down to a hon-
fire at Ambleside. They were com-
inv home, and J gat a call from a
guy Pknow who said there wits an
geerdent at the bottom of the
Parkway and thar Pisa was dead.

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So we all just ran down in our py-
jamas.””

Added Kihan, ‘fh know that it's
going to take two years to ger this
accident resolved. | think it's
because no one really knows what
happened,” she said.

Meanwhile, Kilian wonders why
no action has been taken to make
the intersection safer for drivers.

Burrard Band member Murray
“Moe™ Guss, 28, was killed Sept.
9 while attempting to enforee an
impromptu roadblock of Dollar-
ton Highways. Guss was one of
seven men diverting traffic in the
340Q-block of Dollarton. Guss and
another man were struck by a

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Toyota truck. Guss suffered a
head injury and died instantly.

According to Burrard Chief Len
George the roadblock was a spon-
taneous action held to draw atien-
tion to an ongoing problem of
cars speeding along Dollarton
through the native reserve.

And early on Nov. 2, 19-yvear-
old Jana Atkinson of North Van-
couver died when a car she was
travelling in along with five others
struck a lamp standard and rolled
in the 2100-block of RKirkstone
Road,

Coroner lan Marshall, assigned
to conduct inquiries into the three
cuses, says completion of his in-

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quiries hinges on Crown counsel's
consideration of charges.

“Tr will not influence the
Crown’s decision by submitting an
inquiry until they have had all
their opportunity to review all of
the facts. The Crown will have to
make their decision based on in-
vestigation conducted by the
(North Vancouver RCMP)
police,’ Marshall said.

The coroner said he is. still
awaiting the receipt. of police
reports on two of the cases (Guss
and Atkinson). “Even if Crown
had made their decision | would
not be able co complete my inqui-
ries because | don't have their
reports,’” Marshall said. ‘There's
no conspiracy or anything it’s just
a case of the boys nat having vot
around to completing their in-
vestigations,"*

North Vancouver Crown
counsel Craig) Dykes did) not
return News telephone calls to
press time Friday.

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