Wonder if this crash is related to a shift change at Dunkley lumber. Some of those workers drive like mad demons going to and from work.

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 @ 11:48 AM by seamutt with a score of -14

Wonder if this crash is related to a shift change at Dunkley lumber. Some of those workers drive like mad demons going to and from work.

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Did you read the story?

From my experience travelling B.C.’s highways, there seems to be very little police enforcement anymore. This may account for the increased speeding. People used to generally use the “10% over the posted speed limit” as a safe speed to avoid a speeding ticket, but now I find that it is often closer to 20%.

I’ll bet these speeds and the overall poorer driver habits can be attributed to less police presence.

Axeman you read the story again and then my comment.

I have been passed by high speed traffic on curves and solid lines then seen them turn into Dunkley. Oh and I was doing the usual 105-110k

Just a thought, but if the headline was “Motorist Killed in Drive-by Shooting – believed to be drug related – there would be massive police interest. Traffic isn’t sexy, and they don’t get any brownie points for doing it. Good solid citizens will cuss a constable out and throw out a myriad of excuses for driving like an idiot.

Arrest a drug dealer, crime statistics go down, write a thousand tickets – and potentially prevent a fatal vehicle accident – no pat on the back. Fully agree Northern Citizen. But you can’t blame PG RCMP, it’s North District. Only time they leave their cozy building is when the accident has happened. I travel area highways a lot, and never see a police vehicle, ghost or otherwise.

True story – we saw a vehicle down an embankment coming back from Powderking a couple of years back, but with blowing snow poor it was too dangerous to stop. We called RCMP as soon as we got into cell range. Their response – did you check the vehicle. No, too dangerous. They said “Oh great, now we have to go out there and take a look.”

Here’s a thought, why aren’t you already out there on bad days giving people tickets for driving too fast for road conditions and showing the colours and maybe get them to slow down. Whether a drug dealer kills me, or an impatient driver, I’m still dead.

From 2 years ago: “Trucks a significant cause of severe accidents, study finds”

“New research just published details how trucks account for 8% of US highway traffic, yet are involved in 11% of fatal road crashes.”

So, per truck involved crashes, there are about a third more fatalities than for those not involving trucks.

Trucks are doing 110 to 120 along the 97 between here and the GVRD. Some are so fully laden that they can barely go 50 to 60km/hr going uphill

I 5 has two speed limits when the speed limit goes above 60mph … 70mph for other than trucks and 60 mph for trucks. There is a valid reason.

BTW, the semi trailer type of truck traffic along 97 is far in excess of 11% … more like 20% …. one in 5 vehicles, not one in nine.

There is left turn lane slot at Dunkley. Is there one at the Pellet Plant? I do not recall and Google Earth imagery is dated 2005 before the plant was built.

No turning lane but it is on a long straight stretch.
CL

This accident was at the Pinnacle Pellet plant north of Dunkley. Second time in the last few weeks that driver has tried to pass chip truck on the right when truck is about to turn right. Civilian drivers need to be far more careful and patient around the big rigs!!

Axeman you read the story again and then my comment.

I have been passed by high speed traffic on curves and solid lines then seen them turn into Dunkley. Oh and I was doing the usual 105-110k

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Yeah, you’re right. I guess it could have been someone living in the Hixon area on their way to the mill for work. I was thinking end of shift traffic which would have been going the other direction.

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 @ 2:30 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 2
From 2 years ago: “Trucks a significant cause of severe accidents, study finds”

This study of crashes in the USA, not Canada, doesn’t say trucks are causing the crashes, but rather when involved, make the crashes more severe.

One can make ten return trips to from here to Quesnel and never encounter even one RCMP vehicle. It is an open raceway. If one sticks to the speed limit plus a couple of clicks transport trucks will tailgate within 15 feet of one’s rear bumper and race their engines in an attempt to intimidate or coerce. If anything it is getting worse.

To clarify, a small car was heading North. It had passed 3 vehicles at high speed from just South of Dunkley to just before Meadowbank. The chip truck was also heading North and was making a right hand turn into Meadowbank when the car came up behind him at high speed, lost control on the black ice and slid at a 45 degree so that the cars drivers side collided with the chip trucks passenger side rear corner. Too fast for conditions, driving erratically. Sad this individual lost their life, but it was their own doing. What a shame.

This is a bad spot in the highway. I was once following a large chip truck and there was quite a bit snow swirl behind the truck and all of a sudden the truck was braking hard in front of me and I did not see his brake lights. The reason he braked hard because another large truck was making a left turn in front of him that I did not know was there. They need to put a left turn pullout if they are going to keep turning there.

That’s a very bad spot. I probably wrote about it ten years ago on this web site saying its an accident waiting to happen. Should be better signage and a turn lane at that location.

I find the most dangerous thing on the highway for any truck driver is the left turn traffic that also have traffic behind them. Far to many don’t give adequate signaling in advance, and far to many making the left turn don’t have any awareness of their surroundings and don’t even use the rear view mirror.

Then we have the modern LED lighting for brake lights that get covered in snow and can’t melt away the snow that covers them… all to save fuel they say?

Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 @ 4:42 PM by PrinceGeorge with a score of 8
One can make ten return trips to from here to Quesnel and never encounter even one RCMP vehicle. It is an open raceway. If one sticks to the speed limit plus a couple of clicks transport trucks will tailgate within 15 feet of one’s rear bumper and race their engines in an attempt to intimidate or coerce. If anything it is getting worse.

Whats that meat product called?…..Balogna or baloney?

Another spot that is an accident waiting to happen is the new light at Sintich Road. If a northbound semi is turning left and you want to turn left onto Sintich you can’t pull out enough to see past the truck until you are actually out in the oncoming lane. Couple that with people driving past the truck going north without even slowing down in the eventuality someone may pull out in front of them and you have the makings of a very serious accident. When that intersection was designed they didn’t make a wide enough space for people to safely pull out and look around a big rig, or anything that is higher than the vehicle you are driving for that matter. I cringe whenever I see someone turning left onto Sintich, when thier view is blocked, without even slowing down just because they have a green light.