Poor road conditions, eh? Nobody's fault, I bet.

I am going to start by sending out my condolences to the family and friends of the deceased person.

I am not going to even assume anything was wrong or anyone was at fault at this accident, I don't know, nor really care. That is the job for the police and I shall let them do it.

I am though,going to add that I fear that there are going to be way too many more before the winter is done...(even one more is way too many).... why you ask..
1)Drivers are driving way too fast for road conditions, and you with the 4x4s...yes you can get away fron the stop signs and green lights a lot faster than I can but you don't stop any faster.
2)People are driving their vehicles without cleaning the snow off their vehicle or scraping the windows properly... a 6 inch circle doesn't cut it... leave home 5 minutes sooner and clean the windows... the life you save might be mine or your own.

And where were the plow trucks...even when I used the highway at 1:00 pm from holmes road it didn't look like a plow had been through...and certainly none of the main roads off of 97 were touched. Seems YRB waits untill the snow quites before going out. Or they are very short of vehicles. We live where it snows so there's no excuse for short of vehicles...It's all money...wouldn't want to do something twice if you don't have to. And now someone is dead while they sat in coffee shops.....I live on a school route and not one plow has been through all day....with all the ruts even at slow speeds it's easy to be drawn into a vehcile...wonder what would be said if that was a school bus

I moved here about 2 and a half years ago (love it here). I have lived all over New England and Eastern Canada, in big cities, small cities and rural areas. I have NEVER experienced what passes here as snow removal. Truly amazing.

I find when I travel the highways as soon as you leave the PG highway district in any direction it is like night and day. Especially out west you litterally go from 3 inches of snow and ice to clear roads at Bednesti where the responsibilities change. If I go south I will see a half dozen HMC units on the road before I reach Quesnel and I'm lucky if I see one YRB from PG on the PG side.

I would be willing to bet the death rate on highways that PG is responsible are 6 times what they are on the 4 surrounding highway regions combined.

If I was the decider I would four lane with a divider along that 14km straight stretch from Stoner to Art Napps, connecting to a ring road system with its first extension connecting across the Fraser at Boundry road through to the Blackwater and Highway 16 and then four lane with a divider again through to Mud River. It would save 3-6 lives per winter, as well as establish the beginings of a transportation infrastructure for this region considering that transportation and not forestry is where our future economic prosparity will depend.

The feds and province should each pay 50/50 for this critical infrastructure to our provincial and national highway system. Our politicians are about their careers and not our local needs so I won't hold my breath until this happens.

Time will tell....

Chadermando.....I agree totaly...
All they do is blame speed...why does everyone else get service...and these parasites just put our tax money in their pocket and no one says anything...Why don't the RCMP insist on the plows or close the roads....Bet it wouldn't take long for plows to be seen if the roads were close all the time.....To say the least...it pi_ _es me off.
And yes I own a 4 X 4..and sure glad I do...have had to avoid many vehicles that are out of control. Not for their fault but for the ruts they get caught in.....they are not going fast..just getting pulled where the ruts want to take their little cars....GET THE PLOWS OUT......

Its a huge tragedy IMO. Probably best to leave it at that for now.

eastcoaster ...

I moved here more than 30 years ago, also from the east where the snowfall here would have been laughed at in those. Ottawa, 6 to 8 inches of snow every week or so during the height of winter plus drifting snow which we rarely get here.

Snowplows were out all over the place several times in a storm. I oftne had to clear the windrow at the head of the driveway a couple of times during a storm.

Since I have not lived there for some time, and rarely visit during the winter since I try to avoid humid, windy, cold winters, I was not sure whether the standard had changed over the years. But based on your info, it seems it has not.

The only thing I can say is that things are a bit laid back here. Sort of like Mexico. Magnana. If you're late for work, or a meeting or can't get out that day, the world continues to revolve around the sun.

I got "stuck" for a while (or at least could not get up the ramp without a good run at it such as one would get when approaching the ramp from the south, on the connection between central east at Tim Horton's near 5th/Central, trying to get onto Central. Highways had cleared the bypass, but the city had not been at the service road 24 hours after the snow started falling.