Two separate fatal motorcycle crashes in Metro Vancouver
Mounties in Burnaby and Coquitlam are investigating two separate fatal motorcycle collisions Wednesday.
RCMP say shortly before 6:30 p.m. the driver of a motorcycle travelling northbound on Griffiths Drive in Burnaby lost control, left the roadway and struck a tree close to the intersection at 14th Avenue.
The 34-year old male driver died from his injuries.
The cause of the collision is under investigation by the Burnaby RCMP.
In Coquitlam, a 54-year-old motorcyclist died in a collision with an SUV at around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Como Lake Avenue and Porter Street.
The driver of the SUV, and a passenger inside the vehicle, were unharmed.
Police are urging motorcyclists to obey posted speed limits and to be prepared for the unexpected.
Body of man who fell from boat found
The body of a man who fell off a houseboat in Delta in April has been found on a beach in Washington state.
Delta police say the man’s friends saw him fall into the Fraser River on April 25 but he slipped under the water and couldn’t be rescued. An extensive search of the area by the coast guard, an RCMP aircraft and Delta police turned up nothing and the man was presumed drowned. On July 22, a body was found at Neptune Beach in Ferndale, Wash., by officers with the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office.
Police say in a news release that because of the condition of the body there was a delay in identification, but a positive identity of the man was made using dental records.
Body of third plane occupant recovered
The body of one of the passengers has been recovered from a float plane that crashed Wednesday on a lake about 100 kilometres west of Lillooet.
RCMP spokeswoman
Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said Thursday afternoon that members of an RCMP dive team found the body of a 29-year-old Aldergrove man.
A 20-year-old man from Prince George also died in the crash. The pilot, also 20 and from Williams Lake, survived.
Lillooet RCMP say shortly before 1 p.m., police were notified that a small float plane had crashed on Tyaughton
Lake. Linteau said according to witnesses the plane plunged into the lake shortly after takeoff.
When police arrived, they confirmed that a 20-year-old male passenger had died. The pilot was flown to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Lillooet RCMP, the B.C. Coroners Service and the TSB are investigating. Linteau said it’s too early to speculate on the cause of the crash.
Man charged in knife attack on cop
A 59-year-old man is facing charges, including assaulting a police officer, after a switchblade attack on a Delta police officer at a senior’s care home.
Delta police say care-home staff phoned police on Monday to help deal with a family member of a patient who had become “agitated after learning about the imminent passing of a relative.” While talking to the officers, Delta police say a man engaged in “a sudden and unprovoked knife attack” — cutting one of the officers’ faces.
The officers shocked the man with a Taser. Delta police say the injured officer was then able to calm the man down using deescalation techniques.
Clifford Adrian Montgomery, 59, of Delta faces multiple charges over the incident.
Celebration of Light goes smoothly
Thousands packed Vancouver beaches Wednesday night to watch Sweden compete in the Celebration of Light fireworks and, despite a couple of arrests for being intoxicated in a public, there were no major problems.
VPD spokesman Const.
Jason Doucette said early Thursday that the crowd, which he described as “well-behaved,” was slightly smaller than the fireworks show Saturday night, when South Africa’s pyrotechnics lit up the night sky.