Whoops!
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 @ 11:43 AM
Prince George, B.C.- for the second time in as many weeks, a vehicle has slammed into a Prince George business.
This time, it was a Toyota that jumped the curb, crossed the sidewalk and hit the Dollar Tree store at Parkwood Place.
No one hurt, and at first look it appears the brakes on the vehicle were in working order.
The previous incident involved an SUV that hit the wall of the Shoppers Drug Mart in College Heights. No one hurt in that incident either, but the impact did make the building shiver.
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And 2nd time that has happened to this location!
When will they learn to drive in George. So many accidents the motor vehicle branch needs to take a closer look at PG drivers.
cheers
I think it’s time to make it mandatory to install some sort of guardrail in front of buildings. BCAA did it.
Retired 02 June 23, 2015 @ 12:34 PM said ,When will they learn to drive in George. So many accidents the motor vehicle branch needs to take a closer look at PG drivers.
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Apparently not all the crappy drivers have moved to Abbotsford yet, the hit and run capital of BC.
Gee it took ten seconds to find a news article where this happened in scabbotsford. Get a life Kim you troll
BCAA’s insurance company forced them to do it – there’s a joke in there.
Many places have waiting rooms just inside their doors, up against the parking lot. Kal Tire comes to mind (Mackenzie for sure). At least put up guards, i.e. lok blocks, in these situations.
Is it really necessary to install bollards infront of a building. Perhaps the driver should be a bit more accountable for it would be a bit better.
glad no one was hurt
Gotta be careful around Abby lately according to Abbynews – 8 rifles and 34 boxes of ammo found stashed on a rural property, hit and runs rampant, and GHB the wonder drug…
And this time last year a van hit a building in Abby and drove through 2 suites to end up at the foot of a bed of a sleeping man but luckily noone was seriously injured in either apartment…
Stop looking at other communities just look in the mirror and see where George is at the No 1 crime capital in Canada.
Cheers
Retired 02, do you ever post a comment and then later in hindsight, ask yourself “what the he*% was I thinking?”
Oops, forgot!
CHEERS!
Hart Guy you said it all there are more then myself with that attitude. I guess you feel its OK for others to throw the sh**t at me and I should just let you have a good laugh. Stop making outrages and dumb remarks and maybe we will be able to communicate on an intelligent level.
Just look in the mirror and you will understand were I’m coming from.
Cheers
@retread 02…..that’s hilarious. Your spelling and grammar are at an elementary school level. And for an older person, you are such a whiner !
Hey retired how’s the chicken sh+t spreading on the homeless going?
cheers
Did you misplace your guns?
And there it is…
So once AGAIN retread02 starts out with an insult and then cries that no one is nice to him
You’re special, aren’t you?
You lead quite a miserable life retard. You start the derogatory remarks and when we dish them back to you, you say the sh*t is thrown at you first. How do you figure?
Can we all just give each other a big hug, smoke a big tune, and be happy.
I think r02 is just a grumpy old fart regetting his decision to move to Habitsford while “waiting for the worms” as Pink Floyd put it.
That being said one has to look no further than the Abbotsford police crime stats to see that trends all almost all heading in the wrong direction. The last reporting period Jan 24-Feb 20 shows:
20% increase in crimes against property
13% increase in all crimes year over year
475% increase in assault with a weapon or aggravated assault over previous year and 154% increase YTD over 2014
130% increase in vehicle theft from same time last year which is up 85% YTD from 2014
abbypd.ca/files/File/PublicInformation/CrimeStatistics/CompStat/2015/2015_Period_02_Compstat_Report.pdf
Yea abby is the jewel of the valley….oops a meth head heard the word jewel and stole it…damn:P
Beers!
wow. personal shots….
mighty adult of you all…
Hey Retired, is that your property where the police found all those guns and ammo? I was just reading the CBC story on Abby over in the right hand column at the bottom. See if you can find and explain.
And what does any of this have to do,with someone driving a car into a store? It’s a mistake with repercussions. Has nothing to do with crime.
Well, I do not believe in L’s and N’s being placed on your car. It is discrimination, no bones about it. However I do believe in an A on your vehicle and you earn this by having too many accidents. All accidents should go on your drivers license on not against the vehicle so someone else takes the fall for your accident. Just think how you would avoid vehicles with A on the back of them, maybe the humiliation would cause them to improve their driving habits. Or be so embarrassing they quit driving.
Probably some retired person visiting from Abbotsford getting confused between the gas and brake pedal.
Well said x-it
I agree with the A on your car , but most of the ones that pass doing way over the limit have a n on the vehicle and if they get to many reports on that licence it goes back to L.
250news.com/2015/01/28/pg-crime-capital-of-canada-hardly
The report about PG is from a Windsor paper of today.
The important stats should deal with larger communities, so starting with communities of 100,000 and larger.
Ben’s column cited above is a reasonable approach.
As someone said, driving into a store is not a crime, unless the driver was dui, especially had a past history of that.
windsorstar.com/life/gallery+canada+most+dangerous+cities/5865267/story.html
This is the link. There are no indications where the data came from or when. Someone needs to call this paper and get them to explain themselves.
This might be archival information without proper reference to the dates and sources. Shoddy journalism!
I make it a habit not to walk in front of a car that is parked at a curb, in front of a store, when the car is running and a driver is in the front seat. There are been some fatalities and lots of injuries from this kind of thing happening in the Lower Mainland and other centres. I have taught my children this too.
I think this kind of accident will happen more and more often as our baby boomers become seniors. I know I have mistakenly put my car in the wrong gear in my driveway.
It is worth the few seconds it takes to walk around the vehicle or wait until they move (or just meet the driver’s eyes, so they know you’re there).
macleans.ca/canadas-most-dangerous-cities-the-rankings
That looks like the source of the Windsor Star’s pictorial. Dates from 2010 Mclean’s report.
I have found in some vehicles if your foot does not completely cover the brake pedal and it is depressed the gas pedal will also be depressed. Then to stop the car the brake is further depressed along with the gas pedal and this can happen quite fast before one can think of shifting into park or neutral. Wonder if the police investigate this fact.
Had a 95 Chev Blazer that was bad for that.
Thats a good point seamutt, I have driven a few cars like that. Also, some of us have big feet and depending on your choice of footwear, a shoe or boot can be fairly wide, thus necessitating that great care be taken when going from pedal to pedal.
metalman.
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