Coroner's Release Welcomed By Local Trucking Association

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The President of the Prince George Trucking Association says only through learning the full details of fatalities in the forest industry, can safety be improved.

Dan Henry is commenting on the recent release of the toxicology results of a logging truck driver killed just before Christmas.  48-year-old Lloyd Edward Booth died back on December 8th in a mishap on the Raspberry Logging Road near Houston. 

According to the B.C. Coroner's Service, the toxicology results show a level of cannabis that would have resulted in impairment of the ability to operate a motor vehicle and has ruled it was a contributing factor in the accident.  Regional Coroner David Coverdale says he took the unusual step of releasing the results because the fatality rate in the forest industry has been under a microscope.  

The PGTA President is hailing the move.  "In the past, there was never very much information released,"  Dan Henry says, "We really never ever, in the trucking industry, got the report that said, "These are the factors, this is what happened, and this is what we need to do", that just never seemed to come into our hands."

"It's a good move," says Henry, "Because the more we know about situations, the easier it is to change directions, if necessary, and make people more aware of what's happening, so that we correct the situation."

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