Accidents

Janel and Tanner Currie pose with their daughter. (Special to The News)

Maple Ridge man lucky to be alive after Okanagan snowmobile accident

Tanner Currie had to have part of his leg amputated after 20-foot fall in the backcountry

 

Janel and Tanner Currie pose with their daughter. (Special to The News)

Maple Ridge man lucky to be alive after snowmobile accident near Enderby

Tanner Currie had to have part of his leg amputated after 20-foot fall in the backcountry

 

Eighteen-year-old Aidan Webber died in a marine accident in 2019. He was a Canadian Junior BMX champion from Nanaimo. (Submitted)

Inadequate safety training a factor in teen BMX star’s workplace death in 2019

Aidan Webber was crushed by a barge at a fish farm near Port Hardy

 

Six Mile Beach outside Nelson is known for its perfect sand, clear water and unique sand spit. But the drowning death of a man in July has residents asking if the dangerous spot has become too popular. Photo: David Grantham/Kootenay Drone Services

Dangerous oasis: The fatal history of a popular Kootenay Lake beach

Six Mile Beach near Nelson is known for its unique sand spit. But locals have feared it for decades

Six Mile Beach outside Nelson is known for its perfect sand, clear water and unique sand spit. But the drowning death of a man in July has residents asking if the dangerous spot has become too popular. Photo: David Grantham/Kootenay Drone Services
Noah Trulsen with his mother Lorraine. (Facebook photo)

Sunday is random act of kindness day in memory of Maple Ridge hockey player

Noah Trulsen died two years ago while playing hockey in Langley

Noah Trulsen with his mother Lorraine. (Facebook photo)
Police investigate a fatal motorcycle accident on Golden Ears Bridge. The rider was thrown off his bike. (Shane MacKichan photo)

Speed believed to be a factor in fatal motorcycle crash on Golden Ears Bridge

Langley RCMP asking for witnesses, dash cam footage from public

Police investigate a fatal motorcycle accident on Golden Ears Bridge. The rider was thrown off his bike. (Shane MacKichan photo)
Emergency crews scoured the scene of a fatal pedestrian accident on April 12, 2018 that occurred in the 21800-block of Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge. More than a year later, a Surrey man was charged. He’s since pleaded guilty and has been sentenced. (Special to The News)

Driver sentence in 2018 fatal Maple Ridge hit-and-run

A Surrey man faces two years in jail after striking and killing a pedestrian, then fleeing the scene

Emergency crews scoured the scene of a fatal pedestrian accident on April 12, 2018 that occurred in the 21800-block of Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge. More than a year later, a Surrey man was charged. He’s since pleaded guilty and has been sentenced. (Special to The News)
Three children are dead following a incident involving a tractor. Image: Canadian Press

Canada Day tractor incident kills three children, injures seven in Quebec

The tractor driver has been arrested following the accident

Three children are dead following a incident involving a tractor. Image: Canadian Press
Search and Rescue continue to search for the missing boater. (Shane MacKichan photo)

Updated: One person dead, one missing after boat carrying five people capsizes in Pitt River

Vessel capsized near Munro Creek just after 11 a.m., Saturday

Search and Rescue continue to search for the missing boater. (Shane MacKichan photo)
First responders on scene in Pitt Meadows. (Ronan O’Doherty – THE NEWS)

Update: Two electrocuted on job site in Pitt Meadows

Workers conscious when taken to hospital

First responders on scene in Pitt Meadows. (Ronan O’Doherty – THE NEWS)