樱桃视频 briefs from 樱桃视频RCMP and 樱桃视频Search and Rescue:
The great summer weather is drawing motorbike riders to Hwy. 99 and for the third week in a row there was a serious motorbike accident on the highway.
Cpl. Dave Ritchie said there was a crash on July 7 near Loggers Creek.
A driver from Victoria was on the phone with a 911 operator reporting three northbound erratic motorbike riders when one of the bikes went off the road at 7:15 p.m.
The bike was a 2005 white Suzuki driven by a 32-year-old North Vancouver man who was taken to Lions Gate Hospital.
The matter is under investigation as the bikes were reportedly going at excessive speeds and passing on double solid lines.
On July 12 at 8:45 p.m. there was a crash south of Britannia near Daisy Creek.
A 45-year-old male from Vancouver lost control of his 1984 Suzuki while traveling northbound. Ritchie said the rider lost control while traveling down the hill toward Britannia. The man was taken to Lions Gate Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The most recent accident was on Sunday (July 17) at 3:30 p.m. when a motorbike traveling south on Hwy. 99 tried to avoid hitting a 2004 Chevy Cavalier making a left turn off the highway and into the main parking lot of Stawamus Chief Provincial Park.
Ritchie said the 52-year-old male bike rider from Vancouver laid his 2004 Yamaha on its side and clipped the Cavalier.
The man went to Lions Gate Hospital suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Ritchie said charges are pending against the driver of the car.
Congestion leads to second crash
Shortly after the motorbike crash near Stawamus Chief Provincial Park there was a collision involving a southbound green 2000 Acura driven by 33-year-old 樱桃视频resident and a 1999 Chevy Tracker driven by a 41-year female also of Squamish.
Ritchie said the vehicles collided when an illegal reverse turn was attempted by the driver of the Acura to avoid the long line of traffic created after the motorbike accident. The matter remains under investigation and as of Wednesday no charges were laid. Five people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Ritchie said the Acura went into a ditch and rolled.
Deer struck and killed
Visitors from Iowa got a surprise Wednesday at 9:48 a.m. when a deer got in their way on Hwy. 99 near Centennial Way. The northbound 2002 Honda Odyssey van from Iowa collided with the deer. Ritchie said the animal didn't survive the collision and the van was so badly damaged that it had to be towed from the scene.
Wind spreads log sort fire
樱桃视频Fire Rescue (SFR) members were called to the log sort near the 樱桃视频Yacht Club Monday July 18) at 5:25 p.m. to what was initially reported as a structure fire.
Captain Tony Worth said the fire was in some logs behind a building. He said the wind spread the fire and created several spot fires.
Loggers working at the log sort helped put out the fire with three SFR engine companies. The situation was under control by 6:30 p.m. and the fire fighters left at 6:55 p.m.
Industrial building saved from major damage
A security guard noticed smoke coming from the Power-Pacific Pole Ltd. building on the former BCR shop property.
The security guard called 911 at 12:15 a.m. on July 19.
Worth said once fire fighters arrived at the scene it took five minutes to find the source of the fire, because of the size of the building and the darkness.
He said the fire was inside the double roof and had been smoldering for some time.
The fire was out at 2:15 a.m.
Worth noted the damage would have been far more significant if the security guard hadn't seen the smoke.
14-year-old rescued by SAR
An injured girl hiking with a group based at the Evans Lake camp was taken out of the wilderness in the middle of the night after the girl fell and suffered minor injuries.
Nathan Dubeck of the 樱桃视频Emergency Program said locating the girl last Thursday and into Friday (July 7 and 8) was a challenge because her precise location wasn't known.
Through the use of a cell phone on the fringe of service, an adult with the hiking group led search and rescue volunteers to the girl at a small lake between Lewis Lake and Butterfly Lake.
The Lower Mainland girl went to 樱桃视频General Hospital with shoulder and neck injuries.
