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W. Van man files suit
over mattress ‘attack’

A- WEST Vancouver man is suing United Buy and Sell
Furniture Warehouse after an unfortunate experience with

a mattress headboard.

On. Jan. 2, Lestie Howard
Davie went shopping for a mat-
tress at, the Grandview Highway
store in Vancouver. A’ helpful
sales clerk attended, and the
hairstyling salon owner tested out
the mattress by first sitting on it
and then by laying down.

Without warning, the attached
headboard came crashing down.
Davie claims to have been knock-
ed out cold. A concussion, chip-
ped teeth and aggravation of a
previous back injury are noted in
the suit. |

Ambleside lawyer Douglas
Sarkissian, claiming general, ag-

By Brent Mudry
Contributing Writer

gravated, punitive and special
damages, states the store failed to
prevent “injury from unusual
dangers,’’ and allowed his client
to ‘‘rest on the mattress without
adequate super vision.’’

Davie claims no store staff at-
tended to him after the incident,
which has caused ‘‘loss of enjoy-
ment of life’? and ‘‘impairment of
earning capacity.’’ Store officials
were: unavailable for comment at
press time.

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Sunday, May 23, 1993 - North Shore News - 11

Close Lioyd exit - residents

RESIDENTS IRKED by traffic taking the Lloyd Avenue
exit from the south side of the Upper Levels Highway be-
tween Capilano Road and Westview Drive want to see the

route blocked.

North Vancouver City Council
voted Monday, May 17, to back
the residents by writing to North
Vancouver District and provincial
politicians (0 express support for
the closure. ,

Council heard
traffic avoids

that highway
congestions at

Westview Drive by travelling
down Lloyd Avene, and then
turning on to 22nd Street and

MacKay Avenue on the way to
Marine Drive.

Deirdre Bradshaw, speaking for
the South Lloyd Avenue Closure
Comunittee, said the highway ac-
cess at Lloyd Avenue was
“substandard,’’ with inadequate
distance for cars to slow down or
merge into the traffic.

“Those who use it travel at ex-
cessive speeds, The number of
non-local vehicles using our

neighborhoad as a thoroughfare is
intolerable,"' she said.
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CITY COUNCIL
by Stephen Wisenthal

ing the route include buses and
large commercial trucks.

Pedestrians walking along Lloyd
Avenue, a road without sidewalks,
are forced ‘to walk on the street
along with the speeding vehicles,"
said Bradshaw.

She also highlighted the danger
to children) playing in nearby
parks.

Council heard that the Ministry
of Highways plans to close the

access eventually in any case.

Bruce Allen, speaking for the
residents, said that North Van-
couver-Lonsdale MLA David
Schreck had confirmed that the
highways ministry would act
quickly if it received a request for
closure.

Because Lloyd Avenue is in
North Vancouver District, the res-
idents will be presenting Uwir re-
quest to a future district council
nieeting.

Coun. Barbara Sharp, who
moved city council's motion of
support for the residents, said: ‘I
don't think it takes a staff report
or a rocket scientist to tell me (the
Lloyd Avenue highway access) is
in unsafe condition. It’s not an
arterial road and it’s being used as
one.”

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