Local killed in accident By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN A TERRACE MAN is dead and another local man is in hospital after a head-on collision in Houston Feb, 18, Jason Lee Parent, 30, died after the Ford Festiva he was a passenger in crashed head-on with a. Finning pick-up truck, po- lice say. The collision happened at 7 p.m. on Hwy 16 at the Alix Frontage Road al the _ west end of Houston. The driver of the truck . escaped without serious injury, police said. The driver of the car, a Terrace man, was taken to Smithers hospital with a. broken leg and other non- life threatening injuries, police said, Police are hoping the man will be able to pro- vide them with more infor- mation about how the crash happened, “We have a lot of work to do yet — we still have to speak to the driver of the car,” said Houston RCMP Sat. Fenson said last week. “We're nol going to push him in the early stages.” Houston police along with Terrace RCMP traffic analyst Cnst. Cam Joseph - are investigating the cause of the accident but have no definitive answers yet. “The road conditions were very good al the lime — actually, | don’t see road conditions being a .major factor,” said Sgt. Fenson. The B.C. Coroner’s Ser- vice is also investigating the death. Anyone with informa- tion aboul this accident is asked to call Houston RCMP at 250 845-2204, ‘Shroom patch log proposal worries picker ANOTHER popular pine mushroom patch is slated — for logging. The area dubbed the “pravel pit” is north of Terrace west of Kalum between Glacier Creek and Lean-to Creck, says Terrace picker Lake Drive; Ed Ansems, - He opposes logging the area, which is part of a new five-year forest deve- lopment plan approved by the forests ministry. “There are this,” Ansems said. area.” He said he had hoped the ministry would give the wood lot operator re- placement timber in a dif- ferent area. Ministry wood Ict for- ester Doug Davies said small cut blocks of about five hectares will be used in the area and the wood lot operator will only cut parts of each block. “The blocks are very “it promotes that resource as opposed to large scale clearculting, which would 1.” small,” Davies said. sort of decimate it.” He said the period for public review of the deve- lopment plan ended in early December. The Kitsumkalum band has also expressed con- cerns, he said, adding the avoid ail identified. culturally mod- logging will ified trees in the area. Davies doubts the area has extraordinary pine mushroom value. “There are artas 20 times more ff valuable than the arca he’s - P talking about,” he said. so few places close to fown like “This and the airport are the two best places open lo the public ia the immediale FUEL WAS spilled and an Excel transport truck and trailers were da- maged Feb. 21 east of Terrace when the rig turned sideways on Hwy16. There were no injuries and traffic was blocked for a short time. PHOTO COURTESY TERRACE FIRE RESCUE Slippery roads cause truck accident SLIPPERY road conditions are being blamed for an early morning accident which saw an Excel transport truck turn sideways on Hwy 16, blocking traffic for a short period of time. The Feb. 21 accident happened about 50km east of Terrace around 6:30 a.m. Police received a call that the truck was blocking the highway but by the time they arrived on site the truck had been moved to clear up one lane of traffic. “1 guess a logging truck stopped by and pulled the trailers out of the cast- bound lane,” says Terrace RCMP Constable Doug Craig, adding the road was very slippery at the time. - “It appears that road conditions were a factor there is no criminal or Motor Vehicle Act charges pending.” Terrace fire rescue crews also re- sponded to the scene to clean up a 100 litre fuel spill as a result of the acci- dent. The truck and two trailers were da- maged in the accident and it had to be towed away, police said, Shortly after police arrived on scene a Nechako North Coast sander dropped sand on the road. But Angela Vanderboon, a Kitwan- ga resident who commutes to Terrace for work, says sanders need to be oul in that area earlier. “I think the road maintenance con- tractor could really step up the main- taining the road a little better or at least gel out there a little earlier,” Vanderboon said.. She said the road conditions were poor for three days running and she passed several vehicles in the ditch on her way lo Terrace Feb. 20 and 21. “Either people aren’t driving to, the road conditions or definitely the road maintenance people need to be out there earlier,” she said. 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