POLICE expect to lay charges against the driver of this 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit after he allegedly ran a stop sign and col- lided with a van. = Woman's arm a severed in NV ad accident Disabled women trapped in rolled van By lan Noble News Reporter A disabled woman in a wheelchair had her arm severed Saturday afternoon in an accident involving a van and a car, According to North Vancouver RCMP Const. Steve Pettit, a Ford Econoline carrying two disabled people in wheelchairs and nwo women in front was westbound on [5th when their vehicle was struck by a car going southbound on Mahon. “he van, which was set up to transport disabled people, ended up on its side at approximately 1:35 p.m. on the rainy afternoon. An arm of a disabled woman was severed in the ac be reattached in hospital, said Perit. North Vancouver City fire department assistant chief Barry Southam said firefighters surmised that the woman's arm went through a window that had popped our during the accident and the arm was trapped outside when the van rolled. Firefighters freed her by using air bags te lift the vehicle, said Southam. Petit said the car, a Volkswagen Rabbit driven by a 27-year-old Vancouver man, allegedly ran a stop sign. He said the accident is still under investigation and he anticipates that charges will be laid against the driver of the southbound vehicle. Pettit is waiting for an accident reconstruction- ist to help determine the facts involved in the acci- dent. The other passengers in the van and the dri- ver of the car suffered minor injuries, said Pettit. pe os Me eat vee coe . TE gk orapw bce. nat and could not | Poet NEWS photos Terry Peters RCMP officers examine the inside of a van (above) at 15th and Mahon after the last accident victim (right) is pulled from the same vehicle Saturday afternoon. Leg-hold trap encounter kiils raccoon when found, she said. The shock combined with the severe inpuries made cuthanasia the kindest optien, a Bright Lights... The young male raccoon was picked up by the West Vancouver SPCA in the 6400-block of By fan Noble | within News Reporter WILDLIFE Rescue wants a Horseshoe Bay-area resident to reform his ways after a badly injured raccoon caught in a leg-hold trap had to be destroyed. Elizabeth Thunstrom, community relations off cer for the Burnaby based Wildlife Rescue Asociation of B.C., said if the Horseshoe Bay fecal who set the rar knows people are looking fora trap, the raps likely wen't be set anymore “He's almost like a neighborhoed watch thing,” she said. Thunstrom’s remarks relate to the Now PE death ofa raccoon that was caught in.cleg hold trap [t's a device in the news because the Furopean Umon is prepared to ban Canadian fur inports if Canada doesn't ban what the Chien corsiders eric! leg-hold traps. RE Douglas Street. The SPCA had been called by a res- ident who saw the animal drag itself te shelter en her porch, said Thunstrom. Examination by Wildlife Rescue staff discovered fractures in the 2on's toot and small foot bones. In addition, the skin was scraped from the upper surtace of the foot and there were signs the raccoon had bitten at his toot. The injunes point ta a leg p. said Thanstrom “Nothing else could have caused that type ot she said) “Tt fooked like someone had taken and scraped off the skin and muscles right down tothe hone.” And because the tresb injures werent dirt or mnaddy, the racsoun couldi’t have gene far ater escaping the trap, she said “Uta child wets caught ora pet gets caught there wall be all kinds of bell te pay” Phunstrom sand The animal was coraliy traumatized and in she said Thunstrom, Leg-hold traps are ille 200 metres (660 feet) of a dwelling, she added. She said the raccoon is oniy the sccond urban feg-hold trap incident: she’s come across in more than 1] years of working, with the now-profit orga nization, which cares tor injured valdlite. Thanstrom called the raccoons death pre ventable. Raccoons attracted by case pickings Pet food left on porches, easily accessible parbag people feeding them ail contribute fo raccoons sticking around. “Trapping the wild animals and removing them won't help i rhe food: source remain, Other anumals, Chonan... sant sill sauply move mand take the place of transplanted or killed animals Thanstrom: sad resents can de three things to keep naccoers away feed pety Hist @ pur addon wire over compust, MB never feed raccoons. w Collins... wi Crossword... wi Fashion m North Shore Alert... i Sports gi Table Hopping North Shore News, founded in 104 as ate inde perukent suburban newspaper al grulilicd samiet apt UHL of the Paci bas tat Inewalay truley anc Sunabey hy we bad and drt with Shore Casula Posi C snacteatt Seles Poatiat Agreetcol Ne ties sealah on tegen st