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Friday, November 9, 2012
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St. Peter’s Quamichan Cemetery historian Priscilla Lowe, along with her husband David, placed 249 white crosses on the grave site of veterans in preparation for Remembrance Day. For a story on the program, plus other ways Cowichan is remembering, please see page B7.
Freak Åying rock kills Duncan driver on Highway 18 This GMC pickup truck was driven by Duncan’s Gregory Thomas Howlett, who died when the windshield was hit by a bricksize rock tossed by an oncoming logging truck.
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regory Thomas Howlett, 52, of Duncan has been identi¿ed as the person killed Wednesday when his pickup truck’s windshield was hit by a rock tossed by a logging rig, near Skutz Falls turnoff along Highway 18. Police are looking for the loggingtruck driver whose rig — headed in the opposite direction of Howlett’s pickup at around 9:30 a.m. — may
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have thrown the rock that became a big, deadly bullet. “The piece of rock that went through his windshield, and hit him, was about the size of a standard building brick,” Barbara McLintock of the B.C. Coroners Service said of the tragedy about 500 metres west of Skutz Falls Road. “This was truly a totally freak accident.” That rock was likely clinging to the load of logs when it shook loose from one of two eastbound rigs, headed toward Duncan on Highway 18, she explained.
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Witness reports to the RCMP indicate the deadly rock fell from the ¿rst of the two logging trucks. The rock bounced off the road, then entered the driver’s side windshield of Howlett’s GMC pickup going west toward Lake Cowichan. Coroner Honey Forbes said Howlett’s shocked, yet uninjured wife somehow managed to gain control of the pickup after Howlett was hit through the shattered windshield. “She did an unbelievable job of gaining control of that vehicle and stopping it.” more on A5
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