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A vehicle hit a School District 35 vehicle in a school parking lot, while a logging truck tipped on its side on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, crews had to clean up a second transport truck that turned over on the Golden Ears Bridge this month.
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Mounties and emergency responders were kept on their toes dealing with a handful of crashes in Langley Tuesday and Wednesday.
School crash
The Langley RCMP went on a manhunt for a driver who caused a crash in the parking lot of Glenwood Elementary mid-afternoon. At about 2 p.m. on May 28 a car swerved off 208th Street and into the parking lot of the Brookswood area school, on the corner of 24th Avenue. The car was apparently heading south on 208th and swerved to avoid another car. The vehicle, a courtesy car from an Aldergrove autobody firm, clipped the corner of a staff member’s car, then slammed into the back of a School District 35 maintenance van. The van was knocked most of the length of the parking lot despite having its parking brake on. The van’s driver was inside the school doing repair work. The van wound up stuck on top of a concrete barricade. The front of the car was demolished. The driver apparently slid out the window of the car and ran away to the north. No one was injured at the school.
Fortunately, the incident happened about 45 minutes before school was let out for the day, said vice principal Derek McCracken. If the driver had come along later, the parking lot would have been full of parents picking up children. McCracken said the driver apparently was trying to avoid another motorist who was slowing down for the school zone’s reduced speed. Police were seeking the man using dog teams and going through the farm fields north of the school. Motorists were being diverted away from several nearby roads for fear
Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance
A classic car suffered significant front-end damage after running head on into a light standard on the north side of 64th Avenue Wednesday afternoon.
that the driver might try to hijack another vehicle. The wrecked car belonged to Don’s Autobody of Aldergrove. Troy Woodcock of Don’s was surprised to hear from the police at about 2:30 p.m. that one of his courtesy cars had been involved in an accident. He had no way of knowing if the car was being driven by his customer, or if it had been stolen or borrowed before the crash.
Semi rolls over
A rolled over semi truck in the northbound lanes of the Golden Ears Bridge caused major problems for drivers Tuesday afternoon. The truck and attached trailer turned over on their side on the south sides of the bridge, funneling traffic heading north on the bridge into one lane. Vehicles approaching the accident were at a standstill. Southbound traffic was impacted as well, as motorists slowed down to take a look.
Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance
An RCMP officer surveyed the wreckage after a courtesy car from Don’s Autobody of Aldergrove crashed at Glenwood Elementary School in Brookswood. Langley RCMP did a preliminary investigation and according to the driver, his load shifted while driving. The driver tried to change lanes to offset the shift, but failed to halt the crash, said Cpl. Holly Marks of the Langley RCMP. Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement (CVSE) staffers were expected to take over the accident investigation, as they deal with issues involving commercial trucks. A similar accident
involving a log truck took place at almost exactly the same spot on May 10. A driver lost his load of logs, causing several lanes north and southbound to be closed for hours.
Classic crunch
On Wednesday afternoon, a classic car was mangled in a twocar collision on 64th Avenue near Costco in Willoughby. No one was seriously injured in the collision with a more modern vehicle.