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Flagger struck as driver flees Injured worker urges patience during Lions Gate delays
BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
A North Shore traffic flagger is calling drivers to slow down on the Lions Gate Bridge after she was the victim of a hit-and-run by a driver trying to avoid nightly lane closures. The incident happened just around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 not long after Amanda McRobbie and her fellow flaggers reduced the Lions Gate to single-lane alternating traffic for ongoing bridge work. As she was bringing southbound traffic to a stop to allow northbound vehicles across, one driver in a black BMW SUV tried to skip the sixminute wait by veering around the vehicle in front of him, McRobbie said. She called out for the driver to stop and held out her stop sign, but the driver kept going until he struck her, pinning her between his hood and side view mirror. McRobbie said the man drove for about 10 feet before she freed herself and he sped
off into Vancouver. “My head was turned to the driver. (I) was screaming ‘Stop!’ and we looked each other in the eyes. No shock, no remorse. He was b-lining it past me and just wanted me off his vehicle. If anything, he accelerated,” she said. McRobbie said she estimates the driver was moving between 10 and 25 kilometres per hour. She radioed her supervisor at the south end of the bridge, who was able to get photos of the vehicle and licence plate as he sped into Vancouver. West Vancouver police offered to call her an ambulance but it wasn’t until much later that she started feeling pain from the collision. “At that time, I was still all revved up on adrenaline and I didn’t feel anything. The next day, I went to my doctor and by 3:40 p.m., everything was all tightened and I’ve suffered from neck, shoulder, arm and back pain on my right side as well as constant headaches since,” she said. McRobbie has opened files with ICBC and WorkSafeBC and she remains off work. The incident has been just the latest in a series of conflicts and drivers See Driver page 9
Lynn Valley man arrested in region-wide fentanyl bust BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
A North Vancouver man was among those rounded up in a region-wide drug bust targeting the province’s fentanyl supply lines last month. The case had been under investigation since the fall of 2014 when police agencies became aware of a spike in fatal drug overdoses related to fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller used to make counterfeit oxycodone. Vancouver Police Department held a press conference Tuesday morning to show off a cache of drugs, money
and weapons seized around the Lower Mainland in Project Tainted. On Feb. 17, police agencies around the Lower Mainland carried out a series of raids, which has resulted in more than 100 charges being laid against eight people. Lynn Valley resident Walter McCormick was among those arrested. Officers from North Vancouver RCMP’s strike force arrested the 51-year-old man in Langley and seized some evidence from the back of his car before racing See more page 11
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