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Farm owner hopes to duck fine for triple fatality LANGLEY MUSHROOM GROWER WANTS FINE SET ASIDE ON THE GROUNDS THAT HIS COMPANY IS OUT OF BUSINESS Staff Reporter
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Helena Blagborne, 6, inspects a dandelion at the opening of the Langley Demonstration Garden at the Derek Doubleday Arboretum Sunday.
Driver escapes car-train collision with relatively minor injuries WOMAN PANICKED AND FROZE ON TRACKS AFTER SEEING TRAIN MO N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Ti m e s Re po r t e r
A 49-year-old Vancouver woman got away mostly unscathed after a train hit her vehicle on the railway tracks at Glover Road and Smith Crescent during the busy afternoon rush hour on Thursday. The woman was airlifted to hospital but has no broken bones or major injuries and is expected to make a full recovery, said Langley RCMP Cpl. Holly Marks.
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According to the train engineer, it appears the woman drove onto the tracks, saw the oncoming train, panicked and froze. It was raining heavily at the time. The driver was the lone occupant of the vehicle. Witnesses to the collision, which happened just after 5 p.m., said the eastbound vehicle did not stop at the stop sign at the uncontrolled railway crossing, and was struck by the northbound train. The car was sent into the ditch and
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didn’t appear to have a lot of damage. Glover Road was closed at Smith Crescent for about an hour, while the stopped train blocked several crossings in the Milner area, disrupting traffic in the area. This is the second train-vehicle collision in Langley in less than a month. On the morning of April 10, a dump truck collided with a CN freight train east of Fort Langley. The driver of the truck survived his injures.
A Langley farmer is trying to avoid paying a $138,000 fine for the fatal workplace accident that killed three men and left two others permanently brain-damaged. Ha Qua Truong was turned down when he went before a Surrey Provincial Court judge last month and applied to have the fine set aside on the grounds that his company, H.V. Truong Ltd. is out of business following the sale of the mushroom farm, and is unable to pay. The judge told Troung cancelling the fine was beyond his jurisdiction. It is not know if Troung intends to appeal to a higher court. In 2008, when a pipe burst in a shed used to mix gypsum, chicken manure and water, it released toxic levels of hydrogen sulphide gas that killed farmworkers Ut Tran, Han Pham and Jimmy Chan. Two men, Tchen Phan and Michael Phan survived, but suffered severe brain damage. As part of a plea bargain, a Surrey judge imposed fines of $350,000 against Van Thi Truong, Ha Qua Truong, Thinh Huu Doan and the companies they operated — A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. and H.V. Truong Ltd. A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. went bankrupt without paying its share of $230,000. Of the three smaller personal fines, two have been paid in full, one in part. Earlier this year, it was revealed that some of the evidence uncovered about the deaths could not be used because WorkSafe BC investigators had violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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