Very sad that another person died possibly because of a drinking driver.

It always seems the bigger vehicle only has minor injuries. makes one not want to drive on our highways.Extremely sad,thoughts are with the family. if he is found to be drunk he’s gonna spend some time in jail

If the surviving driver was indeed impaired by alcohol or illicit drugs at the time of the accident, then the least penalty he should be facing is jail time.
Sad to hear of another fatality.
metalman.

Drinking driving laws have to be tougher, especially when there is a death involved. It sure seems more often than not, the person who is the cause of the accident seems to walk away unscathed. My condolences to the family of the deceased.

I am not quite sure why it is just drinking and driving laws that should be tougher. I do not think it makes any difference whether a person willfully gets behind the wheel while impaired through alcohol or other substance, or if that person is behind the wheel and they are too tired to drive, or if that person, while driving, is willfully not paying attention to the driving and rather is trying to multitask.

People swerve or drift into oncoming traffic for all sorts of reasons due to not being prepared to drive.

Exactly Gus. Then they call it an accident!

How many ‘accidents’ does plain old fatigue cause vs. drinking and driving?

Gus, I think it’s got to start with a person learning to drive and afforded all the training from certified instructors, not only for the regular driver training but for defensive driving, winter driver training, hazard avoidance to name a few, and hopefully, not taught by parents. I would really like to see our MLA’s pressure ICBC and the Motor Vehicle branch to subsidize driver training to ensure this cycle of poor training by others is weeded out. But, who am I kidding, government assisting new drivers monetarily with their training? Unfortunately, kids are taught by parents who think they know how to drive, but we all know there are quite a few who don’t. And yes there are some new drivers who just don’t get it.
There are some who can’t afford the huge costs involved in the training, that’s why I suggest we talk to our MLA’s to see what government can do to assist.

believe it ornot but fatigue causes a lot of accidents. COMPARED to drinking and driving not sure but a person ought to be able to find out. WE have all been there leaving late in the day for a trip too many hours behind the wheel, just a momentary lack of concentration and before you know it you have crossed the centre line, sometimes we get lucky sometimes not

I can see how it happens at that location if its the West Fraser turn off. The road has an optical illusion of turning the other direction than it actually does and the light for the mill turn off creates a glare that blocks out the curve behind it.

I think it would be a good location to have those reflective marker lights along the road side as they make a huge advantage in being able to reference the road ahead.

OK…We really need to send the message home to drunk drivers….If caught, 10 years in Jail…no holds bar…no lawyer involved..This would stop this crap in a heart beat.

I get your comment Eagleone as that is a dangerous stretch of road, but the end story is ….there was alcohol involved.

So because a guy had a beer or maybe two or two dozen we shouldn’t also look at the other factors that could be contributors or very well the cause of the accident?

A trial will determine the level of culpability alcohol will have played in this case… I have no idea, but obviously with a death involved there will be zero tolerance, that is a given I would think. I am not arguing against that.