Teen killed after being hit by a dump truck
Posted January 13, 2011 10:56 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – An umbrella and a bloodied body sheet fluttered behind police tape at Hastings and Nanaimo Streets as police shut down the intersection this morning.
VPD Constable Jana McGuinness says a 17-year old boy was walking along Hastings and across Nanaimo around 8:25 a.m. “A dump truck heading south on Nanaimo, after making a right-turn off of Hastings, struck the young man and killed him instantly in the intersection.”
McGuinness says, “What we know at this point is that this driver has been fully cooperating, and is completely traumatized by this incident.”
The victim has family overseas and they are trying to contact them.
Kelly Caldwell lives nearby. “That’s the same spot somebody was killed on a bike… They need to do something because it’s very high-traffic around here. It’s gotten worse.”
A couple of store owners say they hear screeching tires quite a bit and it is not a safe intersection.
