Crash Closes Highway 97
Thursday, February 18, 2016 @ 11:08 PM
McLeese Lake, B.C. – Highway 97 is closed in both directions just north of McLeese Lake.Details are not yet available, but initial calls to 250News indicate there has been a serious crash involving a semi and a passenger vehicle.
There is no word on this time on the fate of those in the two vehicles.
The highway is likely to be closed for several hours and there is no detour available.
Comments
Too many semis on the road which is not designed for that much semi traffic.
I find it funny you say that when a very large percentage (80-90%) of accidents involving semi’s are caused by a passenger vehicle
Do you have a source to back up those percentages? Or do you think they just sounded good? I could also say that 80-90% of the accidents are caused by inexperienced truck operators. Sounds good but means nothing without some proof to back it up.
Statistically I may have been a little high, however, a very large portion of semi accidents are caused by passenger vehicles. All you have to do is google it, and you will be supplied with pages and pages of proof. I will be the first to say not all truckers are innocent either. Have you ever been in a truck in the highway Bent?
That’s why we’re all running dash cams now ..
Hwy 16 was closed about 5 km west of Vanderhoof around 8PM Thursday night.
Vehicle incident no details.
She was slick this morning on Tyner Blvd, My truck was swishing around on the ice.
I would like to Rename Hwy16W to Resource Road West or the Convoy Road West. Big Truck
Traffic has increased many times over in the 40 Years we drive that Road!
In the last 40 years everything has increased …
Truck traffic is such as it is due to the rail system that we have is not very cooperative, or effective for daily logistics.
Basically, the rail system is a P.I.A., when it should be the goto method of shipping volume freight.
All the mills have rail, yet our roads are abused by trucks because the monopolistic rail operator thinks they have a license to print money and not have to provide actual customer service.
Personally, I think every heavy vehicle (trucks, especially chip and over load) should pay a premium road tax due to the wear and tear on the roadways caused by these very heavy vehicles rolling on roads build for passenger size vehicles.
And of course the companies wouldn’t pass your great idea onto the consumer now would they …..
If all fuel taxes collected went into road construction and maintenance the roads would be built to handle trucks. Resurfacing every few years to make the roads look pretty doesn’t cut it. The city is going to use federal gas tax money to do work at Masich stadium. It should be going to roads .
The DOT (govt) is complicent in allowing all these extra axles on our roads, we went from 5 to 6 to 7,8 .. truckers just be trucking.
The number of axles may have gone up but the weight allowed per axle has not. Over weight and over size loads do pay more with the permits that are required. I guess we could go back to 5 axle loads and double the number of trucks on the roads.
We have an excessive amount traffic nowadays for these outdated highways. Take for instance the Salmon Valley bridge which was designed for the Model A car and yet today looks like they are going to cheap out on the construction of it and delay it as long as they can. There is no reason this project could not be completed this summer.
The design work is not yet completed and they also have to acquire the necessary land before starting construction. A temporary bridge and road also have to be built and it would be stupid to have a dogleg to the temp bridge at the bottom of the hill next winter.It is not a bailey bridge they are putting in,
Drive to the conditions, follow speed limits even if roads are bare and dry, practice defensive driving; If all drivers adhered to these simple precepts, the number of collisions would be reduced. To say nothing of driving under the influence of any one of a number of substances.
metalman.
The bridge replacement was announced last July — How long does it take to get their sh** together? In my opinion it is nothing more than stall tactics so they can announce the start of the project just before the next election when the snow starts to hit the ground. All they have to do is go out and move a few boulders around before the snow hits the ground and that will give them the start date of 2016. Have they not allotted enough funds for an early start or what?
It is not a bailey bridge they are putting in,
PM–And we are not drawing up blueprints to rebuild the White House either.
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