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Dog shooting in Cobble Hill shocks Valley KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Cpl. Jon Stuart of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP shows the detachment’s commitment to traffic safety, as represented by the Three Strikes initiative last week, which also involved ICBC, South Island Traffic Services and Community Policing. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
‘Three Strikes’ event slows speeders KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
RCMP and other related groups in the Cowichan Valley are hoping that a major traffic initiative on the Trans-Canada Highway through Duncan last Thursday got drivers thinking about their habits behind the wheel. The Three Strikes Campaign, part of a province-wide program, brought together the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP, ICBC, South
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Island Traffic Services, Municipal Traffic Services, Community Policing volunteers and auxiliary constables to monitor the highway for two hours last Thursday. In that short time, 8,450 vehicles were counted, with 2,055 going 10km/h or more over the speed limit. The top speed northbound coming into the 60km/h zone at Allenby Road was 96km/h, and the top speed southbound, coming into
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the 50km/h zone was 78km/h. “For a two-hour stretch, I’d say South Island Traffic Services that’s a pretty good number,” Stuhanded out 12 infraction tickets, art said. “It’s not extreme.” and Cpl. Jon Stuart expected that As drivers approached the area Municipal Traffic Services had a where police were set up, they similar number. first encountered a standard “It’s a safe guesstimate to say speed limit sign, then the Comthey handed out 15 infractions,” munity Policing speed reader said Stuart, who was still await- board. ing statistics from that agency. Finally the police themselves Infractions that were targeted were the last stop. by officers included speed, seat belts and cell-phone use. See EDUCATION, Page 4
A small dog had to be put down after being shot in Cobble Hill last Sunday, and Shawnigan Lake RCMP are investigating the incident. Smoochie, a seven-year-old Sheltie belonging to Carlton Road-area residents Dean and Mary Cramb, suffered the injury after she was let out to play around 7:30 a.m. Dean later found Smoochie leaning against the side of his shop. “The bullet went in her side and severed her spinal cord and came out the other side,” Dean told CHEK News. “She was trying to drag herself on her front legs.” Sandi Trent of the Cowichan and District SPCA said while her organization is sometimes called out when animals are injured, that was not the case this time. She called the shooting “tragic and unfortunate.” “It’s absolutely horrific for the family,” she said. Gerry Giles, who represents Cobble Hill on the Cowichan Valley Regional District board, expressed her disappointment. “It’s always sad when something like this happens in our community,” she said. “In a rural area where you have a variety of lifestyles, you hope that people will be tolerant of animals. Something like this should never happen.” Anyone with information about the shooting should contact Shawnigan Lake RCMP at 250743-5514 or Crime Stoppers at 1800-222-TIPS (8477).
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