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What's Going On. .B16

West Van man desperate
to find accident witnesses

Fears
loss
of car,
work

A WEST Vancouver
resident is desperate for
witnesses to an accident
he was involved in on
January 5 at 4 p.m.

| By JOANNE MACDONALD |

Dave Foster says if he
does not get any witnesses to
back up his version of the
accident, he could end up
losing his car and, he fears,
his job.

On January 5, Foster says
he was in the southbound
left-hand Jane on Taylor
Way preparing to turn left
onto Keith Road. Traific in
the northbound curb lane
had stopped, but he recalls a
4x4 truck approaching the
intersection from about
three to four car lengths
back in the northbound
left-hand lane.

Foster says he saw the

QUICK POLICE WORK

Stolen goods recovered
before break-in reported

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP cracked the
case before it was given to them Thursday.

his dog in the area of the
Fell Avenue ravine just
before noon Thursday.
As he approached the
ravine he startled a youth
who was hiding in the

When the man checked
the area where the youth
had been hiding he found
a camera, stereo equip:

By the Gime the victim
of a breaking and euter-
ing had reported the
crime and the theft of a
number of items to police,
the RCMP had those
items in their possession

them over to the relieved

The man called in police.
Within minutes of the

They vot a large helping
hand in the case from an
unidentified North

described by pofice as be-
tween 14 and 16 years of
age, fled as the man ap-

from a homeowner in the
Fell Avenue area cepor-
ting she had just returned
home to find her house
had been entered,

Potice put two and two
tovether, determined the
recovered items belonged
to the woman, and hand-
ed them over,

i NEWS photo Terry Peters
DAVE FOSTER with the wreckage of his car and the licence plate showing expired insurance decal,

east-west light on Keith turn
green before he started his
turn, however, it was also at
that point that he says the
northbound truck ran the
red light and broadsided his
1972 Datsun 2402 on the
passenger’s side.

Foster says his car spun
around from the force of the
impact and ended up back in
the lane he had started his
turn from.

“There was no horn, no
screeching. The truck just
came right at me. She'd (the
driver of the truck) run the
red light,’’ says Foster, who
sustained face lacerations
and a broken rib in the acci-
dent.

Only one person came
forward at the time of the
accident, G@«pite the fact
that Taylor Way was crowd-
ed with cars at the time.
“One person gave his name,
but he was quite a way down
the road. Somebody had to
see it,’’ says Foster. ‘*! need
my car for work and I've
already had to take dime
off."

Foster says he is also con-
cerned about whether he wil!
be elegible for insurance
coverage from ICBC. His
insurance expired at the end
of December, 1984, but he
says 3 renewal notice was
not sent out.

ICBC adjustor John
Domes says because the
Foster case has not been set-
tled he is not at liberty to
comment on the situation.
However, he added every
driver is individually respon-
sible for renewing his or her
insurance, even if a renewal
notice fails to arrive in’ the
mail,

Says Foster: ‘Hopefully,
ICBC won't make a biased
decision as to who's fiable
because of my insurance ex-
piring. Even if it works out
to 50 per cent my fault, Pd
sah get half of what my
car's worth. Bue if i'm
found 100 per cent at fauls,
PH lose my car, PI have to
pay [00 per cent of the other
driver’s costs and all the
other costs involved,

‘ive had a clean record
so far. That's why it's so
imperative that T—T get
witnesses to pL ICBC what
happened.”