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RUSH-HOUR traffic on the Upper Levels Highway Cut was slowed in all. di-
rections Tuesday morning after a semi-trailer truck jumped the highway
divider just east of Mountain Highway. A police investigation of the accident
continues.

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Group backs Blais suggestion to
identify violent young offenders

A NORTH Shore-based group lobbying to make changes
in the federal criminal justice system supports a recent
statement made by federal Justice Minister Pierre Blais

that young
publicly named.

As matters stand, the Young
Offenders Act, passed in 1985,
virtually guarantees anonymity for
teens aged 12 to 17.

While details of an offence or
trial may be reported by news
media, the names of the accused,
victims or witnesses, are off-limits
for publication unless:

@ upon request by a peace officer
a youth court makes an order
allowing the publication of the
identity of a young person who

‘poses a danger to the public, if

publication is deemed necessary to
help apprehend the young person;

e@ the person to be identified,
whether the accused, victim, or
witness, requests that a youth
court make an order permitting
publication of the identity.

Said Noreen Provost, coor-
dinator of Citizens United For
Safety and Justice (CUSJ),
“We've been after them to cither
do away with or radically change
the Young Offenders Act for
years.

“| think it’s
troversial act in
We're all for the naming
gerous young offenders,’’
said.

Provost said the CUSJ has writ-

the most con-
all of Canada.
of. dan-
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offenders who

commit violent’ crimes be

By Michael Becker
and Stephen Wisenthal

ten a letter of support to Blais,

The organization also advocates
a change to the age group ad-
dressed by the Young Offenders
Act, which covers young people
aged 12 to 17,

Said Provost, ‘‘We feel that the
age should be down to between 10
and 16, Most kids are really nice
kids, but those who fall into this
category are very often thoroughly
streetwise by the time they are 14
or even younger.

“We think that by lowering the
age, more kids who commit really
serious crimes would fall under
the adult form of punishment,”
she added.

Meanwhile, last month North
Vancouver City Coun. Stella Jo
Dean stormed out of council's
Jan. 11 meeting when she was
ruled out of order early in a
debate on the Young Offenders
Act.

After Dean left, council voted
in favor of asking several commit-

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Crash kills NV teen

Two-car collision on Moody Ave.

A NORTH Vancouver teen died Saturday, Feb. 20, fol-
lowing an early-morning two-car collision in North Van-

couver.

Nazanin Shafieian, 17, died as
a result of massive head injuries
sustained when she was ejected
from the vehicle in which she was
a passenger.

According to a North Van-
couver RCMP spokesman, the
fatal accident took place at 1:52
am.

The deceased was travelling east
on [3th Street in a {996 Chrysler
Daytona driven by Sanaz Fazline-
jad. Her sister Nooshin Shafician,
18, was a passenger in the front
seat of the car.

The police say a Mazda travel-
ling south on Moody Avenue
went through a stop sign and
struck the Chrysler on the driver's
side, causing it to spin. The vehi-
cle ended up on a nearby lawn,

The impact threw Shafieian out
of the car’s haichback.

Said North Vancouver RCMP
Set. Don Miller, “The deceased
was not wearing her seatbelt,

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

which likely would have saved her
life.”

Miller said speed, on the part of
the driver of the Mazda, is being
investigated as a factor in the ac-
cident.

The driver of the Mazda has
been identified as 19-year-old
Colin Worely) of North Van-
couver. His passenger was Daniel
Mendick.

According to a hospital
spokesman, the four who survived
the crash were treated for injuries
at Lions Gate Hospital and
discharged.

The police have ruled out
alcohol as a contributing factor in
the crash.

Their investigation into the ac-
cident continues,

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