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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011
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Police remove a green Land Rover from a townhouse garage in Newton last Tuesday afternoon. A 51-year-old woman was killed after her daughter accidently hit the ❚PHOTO/Matt Law gas rather than the brake while pulling into the garage. The car crashed into a wall separating the garage and a hallway in the home.
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“Unbelievable” carnage on Surrey roads SURREY - Two Tom Matt were killed, two are ZYTARUK & LAW Staff Reporters clinging to life, two more are in critical condition and two others sustained serious injuries following a stunning spate of carnage on Surrey’s roads. “It’s been unbelievable,” Surrey RCMP Cpl. Drew Grainger said, adding that there seems to be no particular theme to the carnage, other than it’s been bad. “These have happened on sunny, warm days,” he said. A 51-year-old Newton woman died Tuesday after her daughter accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake while pulling into the garage of their townhouse, in the 12700-block of 64th Avenue. The green Land Rover Discovery sped forward into the garage and crashed into a wall that separates a hallway in the home.
A 10-month-old baby was in a childseat in the back seat. The baby and daughter weren’t injured. Meanwhile, a 60-year-old Cloverdale man remains in an induced coma after being run down by his own Acura as it was being stolen from his driveway, in the 5900-block of 168A Street, early Sunday morning. “He is in critical but stable condition,” Grainger said. On Monday afternoon, a 47-year-old Surrey man was killed when his motorcycle crashed with a large truck at 172nd Street and Highway 10 in Cloverdale. That morning, a 28-year-old Surrey man was rushed to hospital where he remains in critical condition after he was hit by a Honda Accord while trying to walk across King George Boulevard, near 78th Avenue. Later that night, a Surrey man
was airlifted to hospital after his car went Delta on Monday, where a motorist was off the road and landed in a ditch, in the seriously injured and airlifted to hospital 15700-block of Cranley Drive in South after the driver of a Freightliner tractor Surrey. He is facing an impaired driving and trailer lost control at a bend in the charge, Grainger said. road, in the 11300-block On Wednesday afternoon, of Highway 10, headed DREW GRAINGER/ a spectacular three-vehicle into oncoming traffic and “We’re a growing city. Be hit two cars. crash at 24th Avenue and aware of your surround176th Street saw a 77-yearIt took rescuers two old man and his 39-year-old hours to pull the motorings, pay attention to son airlifted to hospital, sufist out of his car after the the road.” fering from serious injuries. semitrailer landed on it in A cube van T-boned their a ditch, crushing it. pickup truck and landed on a jeep behind In light of the recent carnage, Grainger them. advises motorists to slow down, take their Meanwhile, the young Vancouver time on the road and be aware of what’s woman whose car crashed into the going on around them. “We’re a growing Serpentine River off Highway 99 in South city,” he noted. Surrey two weeks ago remains in grave “Be aware of your surroundings, pay condition, clinging to life. attention to the road.” There was also a spectacular crash in tzytaruk@thenownewspaper.com