3 am…..driver must have run out of the little pick-me-ups that a lot of them use.

yes, and with 14 firemen standing around at 6am…expensive lookee loos.

I thought it was 13 fireman. They would have been on the clock any how and dealing with any fuel spills. Oh wait maybe it was 15.

Well it’s nice to know that someone is driving a loaded semi truck with an expired license. Probably swerved to miss a pothole :)

i am assuming the driver did not own the truck then why did the owner allow the person to drive. i would hope that the cost for the repairs to the truck and any other cost would be the owner and not icbc.

Maybe I’m wrong, but isn’t a license the most important document that a professional driver should keep up to date?

Although this driver made a huge mistake by taking the corner too fast, his expired licence has no bearing on the crash.
Log books are the most important document they must keep up to date.

The traffic jam was not caused by the accident but by some individual who wished to cause a lot of drivers grief. Why was southbound traffic re-routed at 97-16 intersection? Southbound traffic could have crossed into the northbound/southbound alternate lane at the entrance to the casino. That would have prevented the jam at the intersection and traffic would have flowed as usual. But then again where did these people get their instructions?

Take a look at the little narrow entryway in the divider at the casino entrance and explain to me how a southbound transport truck would make it through to the northbound lane please.

Why was this semi using that on ramp anyways? Shouldn’t these trucks be using the intersection of highways 16 and 97?

As someone else mentioned, the guy probably had an expired license because he didn’t want to have to pay for some outstanding tickets.

Seems like there are a lot of unanswered questions about this so called professional driver.

I can’t figure out as well why he would be using the on ramp… the company he works for has no hauls out east or Lakeland via Queensway… anything up north or out west where they do haul from should be going down the main highway heading south. Must have been on the scenic route or trying to avoid stopping for a red at Ferry maybe?

and where in this article does it mention anything about an on-ramp? Just what I thought, nowhere!

sorry, I hadn’t read the previous article on this accident! There was indeed a ramp involved.

Rocker99 and seamutt, hope you never need the services of our local Fire and Rescue Department.