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Resident killed in mobile home blaze BRENDA ANDERSON Times Reporter
‘I JUST PRAY THAT SOME DAY YOU’LL FORGIVE ME,’ THERIAUT TELLS WIDOW TRACY HOLMES Black Press
The man found guilty of dangerous driving causing death in connection with the head-on crash that killed South Surrey resident Jim Neiss has been sentenced to 14 months in jail. Glen Edward Theriault learned his fate — which includes a four-year driving ban — Friday afternoon in Surrey Provincial Court. In imposing the term, Judge Paul Dohm said it had to be enough to “strongly denounce” the driving behaviour that resulted in Neiss’ death. At the same time, he acknowledged that incarcerating the 65-year-old “will not help him or his family.” Neiss, 59, died on Jan. 18, 2011 when his SUV was struck head-on by Theriault’s dump truck as Neiss drove east along 16 Avenue en route to his job as a Langley school-bus driver. Theriault had just crossed a double-yellow line in an effort to pass two vehicles when the collision occurred. The court heard during trial
GLEN EDWARD THERIAULT that Theriault told police the move was “a bad three-second decision.” In rendering his guilty verdict last November, Dohm described that same decision as “conscious, deliberate, risky.” “No reasonable person would even consider driving in the manner the accused did in this case,” he said. Friday, an emotional Theriault apologized to the court and Neiss’s wife of 20 years, Brenda Michie. “There is no words that can ever undo what happened,” he said. Continued Page 5
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A resident and a service dog died in a fire which broke out Friday morning in a Walnut Grove mobile home park. Crews were called to the mobile home in the complex, located at 90 Avenue and 198 Street, just before 10 a.m. on Friday. The coroner was on scene in the early afternoon. So far, the cause of the blaze isn’t known, but it doesn’t appear to be suspicious, said Langley RCMP. The Valentine’s Day blaze is the second fatal fire in Langley in 2014. It is also the fifth in less than a year and the fourth this winter. Last April, an elderly man was killed when a fire broke out in the Elm Building at Langley Lodge in Langley City. In late November, an elderly woman died in a fire in a fourplex in a rural area of the Township. It is suspected to have been caused by materials left too close to a space heater. Meanwhile, faulty wiring was to blame for a Dec. 8 fire in a Langley City home, where a 64-year-old woman perished. And on Jan. 24, a house fire in Glen Valley took the life of a twoyear-old boy.
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