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West Vancouver. It is nearing the end of the apple season, and Stacy is wrapping up his produce business for another year.

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Monday evening on Squamish Highway 99 in Lions Bay

believe poor highway design

year-old Sarah Bessey.

The Squamish RCMP attended a pedertrian-motor vehicle acci- dent at the Kelvin Grove interse tion on Highway 99 in Lions Ba at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Bessey, a student at West Van- couver’s Hillside middle school, was siruck by a southbound van driven by Roy Weiss, 35, of Squamish.

A foot imprint at the scene shows that she had been off the highway, on the shoulder of the road when she was hit.

The teen was taken to St. Paul's

resulted in the death of 14-

By Michael Becker News Reporter

Hospital. She died two days later as a result of her injuries.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation, but according to Bessey’s uncles Brian Birm- ingham and St. Paul's Hospital head of internal medicine Dr. Carl Laird Birmingham, a faulty high- way shoulder line directly caused the death of their neice.

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Said Brian Birmingham, “The pickup) shoulder line halfway through othe intersection straight. Ee actualy aneles straight off the road.

“The: put the white shoulder line in the wrong position. If you are travelling down there at night, you are driving through a lit area, and then it gocs dark. You have a tendency to look for the line.

visited friends at Lions Bay and was attempting to find a bus stop when she was struck on the pas- senger side of the van and thrown approximately 200 feet (60 m}. “They (her friends) came back down when they saw the am-

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tered, Hillside school is having unsellors in. She was a Ived Hite girl.

“to remember her as a caring, beautiful, happy liule girl. She was so full of life, and along with that she toved the outdoors, and she was just a tremendous stu- dent,”” he said.

Lions Bay resident Bob Smart termed the intersection a ‘‘cause for concern.’

Said Smart, ‘‘The thing that’s curious for me is that, the speed limit changes when you go farther north through the village to 60 kilometres.

“As soon as it changes the only intersection that comes into play is

not an intersection, but an under- pas

tion in the entire village has a speed limit of S80 kilometres (at Kelvin Grove).”’

Lions Bay children returning from school in West Vancouver often cross at the intersection.

Unless changes are made, Birm- ingham believes more lives may be lost at the site.

“‘My brother and I are going to do what we have to do to make sure that this gets changed. We’re going to get together with a bune of people in the community out there, and if it means that I have to start an action against the pro- vincial government, I'll do it.

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