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DEADLY ROAD IN DELTA? ▶ BARRIERS WERE REQUESTED YEARS AGO ON STRETCH OF HIGHWAY WHERE TWO SURREY TEENS DIED MONDAY
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SHEILA REYNOLDS
Extra counsellors were on hand at Clayton Heights Secondary this week after two students at the Surrey high school were killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Delta on Monday afternoon. Friends and family of Chantal MacLean and Cody Kehler, both 17, took to social media to express their grief at the sudden loss of the teens, who were both avid and talented rugby players who were in Grade 12 at Clayton Heights. MacLean’s sister said on Facebook that Cody and Chantal were a couple and were on their way to have Thanksgiving dinner at Cody’s family’s house when the crash occurred. “I can’t cry enough tears to make it better. It doesn’t feel real,” she said. “My heart aches.” Another friend said, “Two amazing people taken from us way too soon.”
▶ “What a terrible waste of young lives that could have easily been prevented with a simple roadway upgrade.” DON PITCAIRN
Trained Mounties in short supply
KEVIN DIAKIW
Crime is in the crosshairs of Surrey mayoral candidates, but are their promises of more police officers even possible? Surrey First mayoral candidate Coun. Linda Hepner has vowed to hire 147 more police officers over the next two years. And Safe Surrey Coalition’s Doug McCallum wants 95 extra officers in the same time frame. But can Surrey get them? continued on page 3
Chantal MacLean and Cody Kehler, both 17-year-old students at Clayton Heights Secondary School, were killed in a head-on collision on Highway 10 west of Scott Road on Monday. The stretch of road was the scene of another serious multiple car crash two years ago. FACEBOOK PHOTOS “Our hearts are heavy and … minds blown. So sorry for the loss of such beautiful people,” another woman wrote. Doug Strachan, communications manager for the Surrey School District, said extra counselling support is available at the high school should anyone need it. “It’s obviously a devastating impact even to lose one student during the course of a school year,” he said. “But to lose two on the same day, there’s a lot of students and staff affected.”
Delta Police said the crash, which involved five vehicles, took place on a hilly curve on Highway 10 between Scott Road and Highway 91 at about 3:15 p.m. Oct. 13. Sgt. Sarah Swallow said the preliminary investigation indicates a westbound vehicle, occupied by Kehler and MacLean, crossed the centre line into oncoming traffic. Several others suffered a variety of injuries in the crash, but none requiring lengthy hospital care, said Swallow, who added traffic
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analysts continue to work to determine the cause of the crash. Concerns have been raised over the stretch of provincial highway in the past. Following a spectacular, albeit non-fatal, crash there in July 2012, community activist and then-B.C. Green Party Transportation Critic Don Pitcairn wrote Victoria asking that concrete barriers be installed to prevent head-on crashes on the hill. continued on page 5
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