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that: if the. oncoming vehicle

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- RCMP continue to’ investi-

Wednesday, August 26, 1998

By Lee Torgatson
Peninsula News Review

Some Central Saanich resi-
dents are concerned about the
number of accidents at the cor-

Cross roads following a spec-
tacular rollover last week.

An elderly man is lucky to
be alive after the vehicle he ~
was a passenger in was hit
hard enough to flip it over last
Thursday afternoon.

Central Saanich police Cst.
Dave Berndt told The Review

had. been speeding, the acci-

“When a‘car is bioadsided
by an oncoming vehicle, it of-
ten means great i injury to the
passenger. If speed had been a °

said. .
As-it was, the 76-year-old :
male was left with. cuts: and.
abrasions, and his son, the dri-
ver, was uninjured, he said.

-« But some nearby residents

: Woman causes

gate an: accident: that:
“curred. at’ approximately:
‘Road overpass.

" Sidney. resident. was travel-

- northbound Nissan operated

dent.)
Attempts by other ‘mo-

woman she was in the wrong
Jane’ went’ unheeded, . and

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| — p.m. Saturday on the Patricia
Bay Highway near the Wain:
Police’ say a° T5year-old
Jing south in the northbound

~ Jane near the overpass when ©
she collided head-on with a_

“by a 59-year-old US. resi-
torists to alert the elderly:

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. done about the c corner.

“You only hear about the ac-

- tual accidents. You don’t hear ©
- about the near-misses that hap-
“pen every day.on that corner,”
“said Loren Ainsworth, whose =:
_home is two doors away from
the corner.:

Even’ ee striking ‘the

Sher: vehicle, the. woman:

-soméone jumped i in front of:

Nissan; and waved at her. to.
be that she pulled over. ©

+-& The woman appeared |
“confused,”. -and.,. was. un-
~~ aware of where she was or.
: what” had happened, police: _

said.
Alcohol and medication,

taken “by ambulance « to
Saanich Peninsula Hospital

to be treated for chest pains.

She was held overnight for
observation. and _ later re-
leased.

Police estimate damage to
each vehicle in the thou-
sands,

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_. continued. on: her: way, ~
- RCMP report: It. wasn't until

the woman’s vehicle, ‘also a

are not consideréd factors i in
~- the accident. °
The. U.S. resident Was -

~ And Barb Pearce, another.
- nearby resident, said she’s lost °

count of the number of times

- she thought for sure she was _
- about to Witness an accident:
“You: hear. squealing tires :

: and look up. and wait for'the -
crash: # They. ‘come. so close.’

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charges | from chase AY

_ 10:20 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, a
and ended when Upton lost |

control of his motorcycle.

suit through

and speeding through a mu-

nicipality. under the Motor.

Vehicle Act, and dangerous
operation of a motor vehicle
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Pearce ‘has lived near. the
corner. since 1972. While the
municipality: has posted lower
speed limits and put. in side-

walks for pedestrian safety, she

said: driving habits won't

- change until a four-way stop is

The. chase Pepin. ound

” He wasn't injured in the in-
cident and an Oct. 5 court
date has been set.

“Two break-ins
on the weekend

RCMP are. investigating

~ two break and enters which
~ occurred in the Sidney-North

Saanich area during the
weekend.

-entere through:
swindow and that a quantity of
“pop, | ‘chips: and. cand vies

putin.
stop signs, or they: ignore
them, ” she said. -

~ But while Central Saanich

recognize the area as a “prob--.
lem”, it: is certainly not the

biggest concern, Berndt said.
Early Saturday r morning, a

Sidney’ public“ ‘works. em-:

ployee'discovered a break-in’

at th concession. stand. lo:

Say the buildi Wi
broken

taken, °
“Police have no, suspects at

: this time. :

«Thieves algo: broke. into
the lounge area at Sandown __
Raceway the following night.

Entry was again gained —
through a window, and al-
though a cash ‘register. was
knocked to the floor, nothing
was stolen.

If you have information on.
either of these matters, call
CrimeStoppers at’ 386-TIPS

-_ (886-8477), or the Sidney-

North Saanich RCMP at 656-
30381.

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“People bier don’ t see the.

| | Charges of possession of.

~ are being considered,

“There have been a number
of accidents on that corner —
usually from somebody blow-
ing the stop sign — but there
are other areas that are worse.”
And..both Ainsworth and
Pearce admit they haven't ap-
proached local council specifi-
‘cally about: putting in a four-
way stop.

“We heard they.couldn’t do
it because then big trucks
couldn’t get going again on the
hill,” Ainsworth said.’

In Thursday’s accident, a 45-
year-old female visiting from
England was. headed north
bound on Veyaness and failed
to notice the stop sign at the

. corner of the two roads. -
The AMC Eagle she was

driving hit an east-bound, 1981..

Toyota Tercel; flipping it over
onto its roof.

. “Itwasa combination of the.
angle it was hit on, plus the fact

that it was ona hill that made
this vehicle flip over. It does not

appear that: the female, was.

speeding,” Berndt said.

~The woman, who did have.

an. international © driver's: li-

obeying a stop sign, he said.

_ after RCMP suspect a

~ Saturday; _members of ‘th
- Sidney-North Saanich’ RCMP. ©

bicycle squad checked | on fay’

“group of youths sitting near
the bandstand on Beacon. | ©
. Sitting in the middle of the

table was a large pile of plant. ;

“leaves, and police could see
more of the same.ina nearby
garbage bag and ina vehicle.

RCMP report the youths
claimed... the ‘plants were.
stolen from a Peninsula
“hemp farm.

The plants have been sent
“for analysis.

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