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Another fatal crash on Trunk 17-year-old from Langley killed DAVE WILLIS
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The same stretch of Ladner Trunk Road in East Delta has seen its second fatal crash in the last three months. A 17-year-old male from Langley was killed on impact Wednesday morning in a collision between a car and a dump truck, said Delta police A/Sgt. Sarah Swallow. The crash occurred in the 9800-block of Ladner Trunk Road. The driver of the Pontiac Sunfire, a 23-year-old female from Langley, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries while the dump truck driver suffered minor injuries. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, Swallow said yesterday. Police are asking witnesses to call 604-946-4411 and ask to speak with Const. Grayson Smith. It appears the dump truck and vehicle were travelling in opposite directions. The vehicle ended up trapped underneath the dump truck in the ditch.
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A dump truck is extricated from a ditch along Ladner Trunk Road Wednesday afternoon following a crash that killed a Langley teen. Ladner Trunk Road was closed between 104th Street and Highway 99 into the evening. A single-vehicle crash, which claimed the lives of two people, occurred in early April
along the same stretch of road. A Richmond man died at the scene while a woman, also from Richmond, was airlifted to hospital but eventually succumbed to her injuries.
“These two crashes occurred in the same general area, yes, but there’s not really anything else common between the two of them,” said Swallow. It doesn’t appear that speed
was a factor in either of the incidents, she said. There are ditches on both sides of the road there and there’s no room for driver error, she added.
Tour de Delta rolls into town this weekend
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Two hundred riders will contest this weekend’s Tour de Delta.
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Some of the top cyclists in North America will battle it out on local streets in the 16th edition of the Tour de Delta this weekend. The Tour de Delta, which carries a total purse of $25,000, kicks off B.C. Superweek, which includes races throughout the Lower Mainland next week. This weekend will once
again feature three races over three days: the MK Delta Lands Criterium tonight in North Delta, the Brenco Criterium tomorrow evening in Ladner Village and the UCI-sanctioned White Spot | Delta Road Race on Sunday in Tsawwassen. Due to ongoing road work on Delta Street in Ladner Village, there’s a new course for this
year’s Brenco Criterium, which will take riders along 47A Avenue. In addition to the racing, there will be several other activities over the weekend, including community festivals in Tsawwassen (Dennison Park) and North Delta (Richardson Elementary), Kids Crits and a youth race.
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