There should be a standard distance for the signs warning about a potential stop of traffic.

Often these signs are up 3km before the actual flag person, and then you come around a corner and there they are. Other times you come around a corner and there they are right beside their signs. It often leads the motorist to guess as to where they are, or if in fact they are even active.

At night reflectors that distinguish their signs from the traditional road signs should be used. Maybe accompanied with a flashing light or something like that.

Its a good idea to use your flashers when slowing down from road speed for any reason so people behind you are aware of the changing speed.

Good suggestions Chadermando. Personally, I think people need to be more alert. Pay attention to driving, not to a cell phone etc.

I've never come across a stoppage in traffic where there wasn't sufficient warning before hand. People in Canada are just bad drivers. It amazes me how even still so many people talk on their phones while driving.

Yes, I agree with both of you but I would also like to mention the possiblitly of reaction time with our seniors. That may not be the case in this incident but I have seen it happen with others. I know another flag person was hit out by Fraser lake a week or so ago, its getting to be a pretty dangerous profession.

Reduce yer DAMM SPEED...very simple. People.

I drove that stretch of the road earlier in the week and the traffic control signs, flags, etc. where out in two close areas. There was no activity in the one area and after slowing down and being cautious until seeing the signs in the opposite direction, to conclude the zone had ended, it wasn't until 5-6 km's later that another set of flags /signs were encountered.

Flagging companies have got to stop that practice !

I agree that proper flagging proceedures are not being followed many times.
I have seen some pretty careless setups.
More attention needs to be given by the flagging contractors, but that isn't really the point at this stage.
The flagger did nothing wrong.
Somebody screwed up bigtime, and obviously the accident was caused by somebody not paying attention while driving.
If you rearend someone,then you are at fault.
In any event,that driver is in deep do-do and rightly so!

I encountered a similar set up last May, in the area of the Slim Creek washout. The warning signs were set back many kilometers from the actual site. It was late at night, and I slowed right down, and drove slow for so long I figured I must have missed it somehow!
I actually sped up to about 90 kms or so and drove at that speed for a while, until the lights came into sight. My point is, I knew for sure that part of the road was washed out, and that it was single lane traffic through there. What about the person who doesn't know what is ahead, and gets the wrong idea about the situation, maybe late at night, and thinking that perhaps someone did not take down the signs from the days' work, and so speeds up again? As mentioned above, the signage should definitely be more consistant.
Of course that does not excuse the person who was apparently not paying attention.
metalman.