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Lawsuit claims deadly crash caused by ‘unintended acceleration’
Aston Martin DB9 slammed into vehicles at 220 km/h by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter
A B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit filed against the manufacturer of a $200,000 car involved in a fatal May 2013 crash involving eight vehicles on Westminster Highway, claims a phenomenon known as “unintended acceleration” was at least partly to blame. As first reported in The Richmond Review last year, sources said an RCMP investigation concluded that mechanical failure was to blame in the crash at Westminster Highway and Knight Street, a finding that was not passed on to Transport Canada. But now the driver of the 2007 Aston Martin DB9, Vancouver’s Jessica Ying Zhu, and a passenger in her car, Lili Yang, claim in separate lawsuits that Aston Martin and Ford were negligent. The lawsuit paints a new picture of what happened on a clear, warm spring afternoon that proved deadly for the passenger in a Mercedes Benz SUV who was stopped for a red light in the westbound lane at the intersection. Yang’s lawyer, Farzana Mohamed from the Vancouver law firm Mackoff and Company, told The Richmond Review Thursday that a key safety feature that other car manufacturers introduced as early as 2000, was missing from the Aston Martin DB9 driven by Zhu. “Notwithstanding that the DB9 was a high power vehicle, the DB9 was not equipped with a brake-throttle override system, which at all material times was a known safety feature that does, in these circumstances, enable the brake system to overcome the acceleration.” See Page 3
Matthew Hoekstra photo Bardia Khaledi, manager of the Steveston Farmers and Artisans Market, is preparing to welcome 70 vendors and thousands of visitors to the streets of the fishing village Sunday.
Summer markets ready to return Trio of outdoor markets offer everything under the sun—and moon by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter The sun is out, the skies are clear and the air smells like baked bread, crispy carrots and sizzling squid. Market season has returned to Richmond
with a trio of mini mercantile metropolises set to open. The International Summer Night Market will begin to welcome visitors tonight (Friday), the Steveston Farmers and Artisans Market is back on Sunday and the Richmond Night Market reappears next week. An estimated 4,000 people are drawn to Steveston’s streets for its twice-monthly market, whose location in the fishing village helps attract visitors. “When you meander through the market there’s lots of other things you can do and see,” said Bardia Khaledi, market manager.
“Your visit to the market might be an hourand-a-half long, and you might listen to the music, but there’s another whole day you can spend just in Steveston.” Sunday’s open-air market, the eighth annual, organized by the Steveston Community Society, will feature 70 vendors offering a range of local farm products and artisan wares. New entrants this year include vegan vendors such as Vogue Cakes and Vegan Pudding Co. See Page 5
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