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Fatal Crash on Blackwater Road

By 250 News

Tuesday, August 29, 2006 09:03 AM

Emergency teams are waiting for the arrival of  the jaws of life to remove a driver from one of the vehicles involved in a fatal  crash this morning on the Blackwater Road  off Highway 16 West in Prince George.

A northbound logging truck and a southbound unloaded dump truck, hit head on, on the Blackwater Road this morning near Minchin Road.

One driver died at the scene, the other is badly shaken.

The Blackwater Road remains closed until further notice.


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The heavier truck won?
It's unfortunate that two professional drivers have an accident at all. I wonder what the circumstances were. If like anything on the highways, they are crowding the yellow line and going too fast. But they are supposed to be professional drivers aren't they? My condolences to the deceased family.
My condolences to the family of the deceased as well.

Look at all the logging trucks lined up while the highway closed. The picture in the paper shows the amount of traffic that road has been carrying. Something in the order of 60 truckers were affected by this?

I have travelled it several times this year and industrial traffic is steady. It is dangerous for those people who go to the lake and who live in the West lake area.

Just the frequency of encounters along with the nature of the work increases the risk of driving on that road.

I do not know how many near misses there have been on the road, or minor accidents we may not have heard about. On one of my trips, there was a pick-up truck in the ditch, prossibly forced there by an oncoming logging truck.

The transportation process is simply not safe.
On one of my trips, there was a pick-up truck in the ditch, prossibly forced there by an oncoming logging truck.


...Or drunk and missed the corner, or fell asleep on the way home from the late shift, put there by space aliens, but how the hell did it become a logger's fault ? Talking about jumping to conclusions.

All of a sudden it's a treacherous road, because one guy had a bad day..and that's really all it was. A tragedy for sure, but nobody was acting dangerously, nor did it have anything to do with the road. Just a guy had a really, really, bad day and it ended tragically.