Bumper Cars , Thefts and Moose

By 250 News

Prince George. Seven motor vehicle accidents in and around the city yesterday, including two accidents in which vehicles hit moose.

At around 7pm last night a vehicle hit a moose on Highway 97 near salmon Valley sustaining about $5,000 dollars damage. The driver said the moose wandered away after being hit by the car. The vehicle had to be towed.

The second mishap occurred on highway 97 near Hixon, a car hit a moose near the Hixon Bridge sustaining enough damage that it had to be towed from the scene. No injuries to the drivers in both accidents.

In the same area a two vehicle crash, 4 km south east of the Old Caribou highway turn off resulted in minor injuries when the operator of a GMC truck made a U-turn in the middle of the highway cutting in front of a Ford focus. Police say seat belts and the air bag resulted in minor injuries to both operators. The truck driver got a ticket.

Still on highway 97,  there was a single vehicle roll over about 45 km north of Prince George shortly before 7pm last night. The Driver escaped injury.

Police were called to the scene of a single vehicle crash on highway 16, 96 km east of Prince George. A motorist saw a pick up truck in the ditch but no one around it. As of midnight the owner of the truck from Cochrane, Alberta had not spoken to police.

Here in the city there was a two vehicle crash in the 1900 block of 20^th Ave shortly after 10 pm. Extensive damage to both and the driver of one vehicle was charged with running a red light.

Earlier in the evening at 6.45 pm. A car collided with a pedestrian. The vehicle operator did not exchange information with the pedestrian and as a precaution the pedestrian was taken to hospital for observation, treated and released.

In the theft of vehicles department, a motorists returning to his van in the Costco parking lot discovered that someone had tried to break into his van. The window had been smashed and the ignition had been tampered with. The owner of the vehicle found a wallet in the van and a suspect was arrested a short time later. He said that his friend had borrowed his coat earlier with his wallet in it.

Police are investigating.

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