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By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter

TRUCKER Rashpal Singh Brar told
a West Vancouver property owner he
was just going to turn his rig
around.

Minutes before, Brar, driving a loaded
flatbed tractor trailer, had hit the man’s retain-

ing wall in the 6500-block of Marine Drive.
The crash caused $650 worth of damage.

After Brar turned his rig around, the truck-
er surprised the property owner by driving
right past him without stopping and out of
West Vancouver.

On Monday in West Vancouver provincial
court, Brar pleaded guilty to the Motor Vehicle
Act infraction of failing to stop and leave infor-
mation at an accident scene.

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The crash happened on Apri! 29.

Crown lawyer Dan Mulligan said Brar at
first denied he was in West Vancouver when
contacted by police about the incident.

_. Said Brar’s lawyer David Forsyth, “He does-
n’t speak English and he wasn’t sure of his
responsibility.”

Brar, wearing a dark ski jacket, stood in the

courtroom with a friend beside him acting as a

Punjabi interpreter.

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The Abbotsford man had already settled fo
the damage to the wail. we
Said Judge Reginald Grandison, “You are a’
professional driver. You have passed:a-driv
test. You must know what the laws are.” 0
Grandison fined Brar $50, noting th
driver had pleaded guilty at an early. st:
had paid for the wall damage. °°
Brar was driving a S. B,. Truckin;
S.B. Trucking is based in Surrey, .'

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