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Vehicle safety branch checks school bus BY KARL YU THE NEWS BULLETIN
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The life of a young Nanaimo man and the start of a vacation for a couple in a motorhome both ended in a head-on collision on the Island Highway near the Duke Point Highway turnoff Monday. The investigation by police and the B.C. Coroners Service is focusing on why the car that hit the motorhome was being driven on the wrong side of the highway.
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ANOTHER MAN taken to hospital with severe burns sustained after collision. BY CHRIS BUSH THE NEWS BULLETIN
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died in a collision south of Nanaimo Monday. Ryan James Jackson, 20, of Nanaimo, died at the scene when the car he was driving collided head-on with a
motorhome on the Island Highway near the turnoff for the Duke Point Highway shortly after 11:15 a.m. Jackson was the driver and sole occupant of the car. The male driver of the motorhome has been transported to a burn treatment unit in Vancouver for injuries he suffered when the motorhome caught fire following the crash. Cpl. Norm Smith, head of Nanaimo RCMP Municipal Traffic Services, said Tuesday that police were still trying to determine why Jackson’s car was being driven on the wrong side of the highway.
The car was travelling northbound in the southbound lane of the highway when it crashed head-on into the motorhome. The impact tossed debris more than 40 metres and triggered a fire in the motorhome occupied by a couple, estimated to be in their 60s. The driver of the motorhome was trapped by the vehicle’s steering wheel, but was pulled free of the vehicle by firefighters as they were knocking down the blaze. The man’s wife was reportedly walking and conscious when emergency crews arrived, but was also taken to hospital. ◆ See ‘POLICE’ /4
Parents are concerned about student safety after a school bus was pulled over by Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement near Yellow Point Tuesday. The bus services Route 12 in the school district – primary, intermediate and secondary school students from Yellow Point and Kulleet Bay to Ladysmith – and according to Donna Reimer, communications director for the school district, provincial regulations state there can be three elementary students to a seat and two secondary students to a seat. Reimer said she doesn’t believe the bus was over its 84-passenger limit when it was stopped, but it still had a couple of students to pick up. The driver took the students to school before returning for the remaining two. “What’s happened is because the routes have changed, the students don’t have as much space as they used to, the bus is fuller than it used to be and so they’re not used to sitting as many of them together as they have been in the past,” Reimer said. Crowded school buses have been on the minds of parents, including Paul Gunnell. “It’s illegal to actually have school kids standing on a bus. The only buses that are legally allowed to have standing room only are transit buses in the city – tour buses and school buses are not allowed,” Gunnell said. The school district has walk limits beyond which it will bus students. Students that are inside walk limits can get on a bus as courtesy riders but are not guaranteed a spot. Reimer said the school district is in the process of registering students for the bus and, in the meantime, has put another bus on the route. The number of students eligible for bus transportation is expected to be less than capacity. “We expect once the registration is done, that it’ll be a matter of if the bus is over its capacity, then there will be some courtesy riders who won’t be allowed to ride,” Reimer said, adding that once registration is complete – it will take about a week – one bus will once again service Route 12. reporter@nanaimobulletin.com
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