Sunday Fatal Has Neighbours Speaking Up

Thursday, August 16, 2007 07:59 AM

As Prince George RCMP and the Courts start to sort through the charges stemming from last Sunday’s single fatal car crash on Queensway, area residents are feeling stress from that incident. ( photo at left shows single vehicle involved in last Sunday’s crash on Queensway, photo opinion250 staff)

The neighbours don’t want to be identified, they worry for their safety as they believe their neighbourhood is seeing more and more criminal activity.

One resident says this is the second time in a month that a vehicle has crossed into his yard. In fact, in Sunday’s incident, one resident says if the car hadn’t hit a tree, it would have slammed into his living room. He would like to see some sort of median or something to block cars from coming off Queensway and driving up and into residential lots “I dread the thought of what would have happened if there were pedestrians on the sidewalk, as they would be dead or severely injured and/or paralysed.”

Neighbours say there have been four cases of vehicles being “dumped” on the nearby river access road and suspected car thieves running through the neighbourhood as they try to evade police. “It seems that since the new bait cars and IMPACT program have started the behaviour of these criminals has gotten worse.”

On Sunday, 24 year old Jeannette Quinn died when the car in which she was a passenger, slammed into a tree. Two people were taken to hospital, two others ran from the vehicle and were tracked down by police.

Emergency personnel were shocked to find the owner of the vehicle locked in the trunk. He says he had been kidnapped.

The string of charges is long, but the two facing the bulk of the charges are Shila Ann Glaim and Wayne Victor Willier. They are facing numerous charges including extortion, uttering threats, assault, robbery and kidnapping. In addition, Willier is charged with break and enter, dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death.

Two other males, Rocky James Whitford and Kevin Lee Charlie are charged with break and enter, and Whitford is facing one extra charge of having in his possession a shotgun “for a purpose dangerous to the public peace or for the purpose of committing an offence.”

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Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 07:59 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Don Mackenzie on August 16 2007 11:33 AM

How come there are no pictures of the lowlifes....In the papers, or on Opinion 250..Put their faces in print, then they cannot work with out Citizens knowing who they are, Will have a hard time renting a apartment, SO lets have their Pictures.

Posted by: REALIST on August 16 2007 12:03 PM

Guess we don't have to worry about a heart attack.

Posted by: jonnypg on August 16 2007 1:13 PM

Back east is getting tough...so should we!

Posted by: bohemian on August 16 2007 1:18 PM

Another issue along Queensway are the car dealerships and that perpetual "yard sale": customers often stopping or parking on the road, which clearly has "no stopping" signs. Also, they park their cars so close to the curb that when someone goes to leave the lot, they must blindly poke out right into the street to see. Not good.

Add that to the number of cars that regularly bolt down Queensway at 90km/h or more, you've got yourself a recipe for much more carnage.

Posted by: Harbinger on August 16 2007 4:59 PM

Pass a law.

Posted by: Chester on August 16 2007 5:52 PM

Get tough with all of them. Let's clean our community up. Can't be more bad people than good people. Can there? Chester

Posted by: snappi on August 16 2007 5:57 PM

Monday's Citizen had pictures of the two that fled the scene but not the others. I also think they should be made public. And I agree jonnypg its time to make it tougher for these "People" to function in our community.