My condolences,very sad indeed.

Posted by: opinionated on October 25 2009 10:01 PM
This is a serious issue. You all won't think it's so funny when someone get killed as a result of hitting a moose.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 03:57 AM

This is a very unfortunate tragedy. We must change our driving habits.

I say the hell with the potholes lets get some signage up, some radar, lights and whatever else it takes to stop the deaths that are happening. We know that these animals are out there so why are we not thinking about prevention?
We live in city surrounded by nature. Why is it that some do not get it? This death never should have happened and either should the deaths at Tyner Blvd.


For heavens sake...SLOW DOWN!!!!!!
We live in Prince George not Germany!!!!

wanna bet ICBC will come up with some new tickets charging people who hit animals on the highway.

Unless you're prepared to make the highways into one big school zone, or place (and maintain) large fences everywhere, unfortunately these incidents will continue to occur.

What is wrong with the concept of slowing down in areas that are known for wildlife
traffic?

Friend of mine that lived in the Territories said that if they hit an animal up there, they automatically got a ticket for driving too fast for the conditions.

If you have ever hit, or almost hit a deer or moose you will listen to MrPG. We are not talking about 90 km here. They are there, and in your way before you can react some times.
For the record, in Australia there are places where you do not drive after dark without a serious cow catcher on your car. We laughed when they told us that. It took us 4 hours to do 100 kms and we still lost asignal light when we clipped a kangaroos tail. At least we learned why all those cars had big chain link and steel rigs on the front bumper. Too bad for us Moose are so much bigger than 'roos.

My son happened to meet a moose on Foothills just past the Hart Highlands turn off. It came out of the ditch and decided to dive into the windshield of our family van. And he wasn't going over 80km.

No time to do anything. Totaled off the van. Very fortunate that he wasn't driving his Honda Civic that day. May have been a different outcome. He was covered in blood and glass, but miracously unhurt.

"What is wrong with the concept of slowing down in areas that are known for wildlife
traffic?"

Nothing. My point is that wildlife are everywhere. Maybe the solution is to outfit cars with those whistles to scare the moose and deer of the roads.

Or how about the highways dept. start cutting the foliage back from the highways a minimum of 50 ft? Of course, if would cost a lot more to maintain the vegetation levels, but that would go a long way to reducing the incidents of moose emerging from the bush right beside the road.

or
how about a few wildlife under passes with fencing to guide the animals through.

Situated at he most used wildlife trails would be the ideal.

Those locations can be determined by the number of collisions at a particular place.

Problem mostly solved.

I know it is not a mega project with federal, provincial, and local contributions, that is why these things will never happen. Too little opportunity for nepotism or abuse on those small projects.

Loki has a point. I see along the coca cola highway they went to some length to get wildlife crossing at controlled points, and even put one way escape gates in some areas to allow game to 'escape' to the safe side of the fence. If it works there ( I assume ) then it should work around here too. It would cost a lot, but what price do you put on human safety?
metalman.