Help stranded motorists at your own risk
Here’s a “who are you” riddle. A car stalls in traffic; you lend a hand to push it off the road. A vehicle is stuck in snow; you help digging or pushing it out. Someone…
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Here’s a “who are you” riddle. A car stalls in traffic; you lend a hand to push it off the road. A vehicle is stuck in snow; you help digging or pushing it out. Someone…
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Sequel alert! My words from the last column: “If swerving sharply or slamming on your brakes is your automatic reaction to a small, furry creature darting in front of your car, please work on changing…
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Do you know your responsibilities if you strike and kill a deer or other animal large enough to be a road hazard to approaching vehicles? Before we get there, consider that an ounce of prevention…
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Do we all struggle to find “something good” coming out of even the most horrible of circumstances? I do. And in the case of road traffic fatalities, there is always a lesson that can and…
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It’s got to be maddening. We’ve tasked the RCMP to target distracted driving. As first responders to crash scenes, it’s a public safety priority they fully support. RCMP Cst. Steve Holmes was recently quoted: “At…
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“I was punished basically for not having enough money to buy a Bluetooth device.” She had been talking to her mother, on speaker phone, while sitting at a red light. The phone somehow went off…
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It was out of character for Lori, the single, hard working, mother of four. She was always the one ensuring that no one would be drinking and driving. Imagine what her children, the youngest aged…
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I struck a raw nerve with my last column about collision insurance. A former client, continuing to feel symptoms from a rear-end collision that occurred years ago, inspired the topic. She became pissed off by…
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“To be honest, it pisses me off”. Those are the words of a former client who continues to live with neck symptoms years after a “minor” rear-end collision. Neck symptoms weren’t the piss-off, though. It…
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Witnesses to the Christmas morning danger of an erratic driver in West Kelowna did the right thing by calling 911. Police found him as he was pulling into a driveway. Turns out he had 2…
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