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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
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Logan Avenue around 201st Street was blocked off Saturday evening as emergency crews dealt with a motorcycle crash. The BC Air Ambulance was able to land right on Logan to transport a patient.
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Riders drink, crash, and go to hospital Two motorcyclists crashed last week, and police say booze was a factor.
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Then on June 5, a rider slammed into a lamp post on Logan Avenue. The Air Ambulance picked him up, but he has since been released from hospital. He wore a “beanie” helmet that offered little protection, and was not properly licensed. Both men had been drinking.
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riders were injured in separate incidents. On June 3, a helmetless rider in a parking lot in the 20500 block of the Langley Bypass lost control and was thrown off his bike, sent 15 feet through the air. He landed head first on asphalt, said Cpl. Holly Marks, spokesperson for the Langley RCMP. He remains in stable condition in hospital.
Insp. Richard Konarski of the Langley RCMP traces his interest in domestic violence back to a case he worked more than a decade ago. Then a corporal, Konarski was with a serious crimes section looking into a bizarre attempted murder. Someone packed explosives against the base of a house, trying to kill an occupant. Fortunately, the blast missed its target. The investigators eventually discovered that the estranged husband of the would-be victim
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Langley RCMP Insp. Richard Konarski lauded a new abuse program. had hired the bombers. “It had begun as a domestic violence case,” Konarski said.
Looking into the previous investigations involving the husband, Konarski felt they could have
been done better. Now a domestic violence project spearheaded by Konarski could be adopted provincewide, if recommendations of a B.C. Coroner’s Service panel are followed. [Project protected women, June 4, Langley Advance.] In 2008 and 2009, Langley RCMP officers developed new tactics to combat violence against women and children. They also partnered with a dedicated Crown prosecutor, who handled every domestic violence case in Langley for more than a year. The funding for the dedicated Crown counsel ran out in June last year, but every other change in the way Langley RCMP deal with domestic violence has become permanent.
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