_ers.strap themselves i infor safety. ~
Kitimatians: wear their ‘seat belts Di per”
- cent of the time.” :

the provincial Conservative -

, mérger with. the’B. c. Unity. :
Party. 0) ene. ‘

the B.C. Altetnative and will .

‘cal party,

like the idea: ofa merger,” |
‘said local. Unity Parly direc.,

-scheduled for December and

A candidate here...

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Al2- The Terrace § Standard, 1, Wednesday, October 6 2004

By MARGARET SPEIRS

_BUCKLING UP will save your: life and the
“lives of your passengers, 0).
“That's the message from lo¢al police: who a

are ensuring seat belt use with roadside.en-

Provincial Occupant Restraint Campaign.”
“We want. people: to wear seatbelts be-

death and injury rates drop.
- About 82 per.cent of Prince: ‘Rupert driv:

A study showed 6 7 per centof North: Di

not wearing seat belts. from 1998 to.2003.':
‘Th 2001; 38: per ‘cent “of B:C. ‘motorisis

killed i in acciderits were: not, buckled up,
Drivers who regularly” wear seatbelts: still

need to exercise: their best readlvay behay-

iour,

By REBECCA COLLARD - ;
AFTER TURMOIL within’

Party last month, the party. -
vote 69 per cent in favor of a.

The merger was ‘proposed . :
undera working erqupcalled’:

form a new. -provinla politi

tive. Party of B.

tor-Allan McIntyre: : .
“It went off the: rails abit :
with the Conservative Party.
It’s behind us‘now.”
. The: ‘offi cial” ‘ieiger is

McIntyre says, the new. par:
ty, called the: B.C. Conserva- .
tives,. willbe. looking. lo run

~ He: says running, a candi’.

“If there's ‘going to be! a.
Jukewarm turnout, 1 don't:
know: that We: would hath,

‘He says ‘they have’ alrcady :
béen in contact with possible .
"candidates for the May elec--
and. added that none of”

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Buckle up, warn RCMP

Police: officers will stil stop impaired, :
_ Speeding. or aggressive, drivers: during: ‘the *
” campaign,” :

"agressive driving and alcohol \ were ecoli: a
~tribuling factors:in 18 ‘pervcent and. 31: por
cause they work,” said Set.: Don Murray-of:
the: RCMP's North Pacific Traffic Services,

‘Statisties show, when’ seat’ belts are worn, ©

cent of local fatal crashes, respectively: .

a

tive. to local-road conditions. -

Stats indicate’ 85 motorists died’ on: north-

» ern roads-i “in: 2002, compared to 71. deaths in.
“2003 and 53'so far this’ year, 7

With only: about: three: months’ left’ in ‘the

"year, Murray i is, ‘¢onfident: norihern drivers
‘will finish’ the. year- with another Jaw:

. foadside fatality-rate.

New B. Cc. Tories | may
run candidate here .

‘Melntyre, who ‘thinks’. that -
meeting will be held before: .
the end-of the year,

‘before. “It’s certainly. a good

gether “under one banner,”
he said. :

‘can. the new party can meld
“a sirong.. ‘Opposition and”
“gain. some Seats in- the leg-
‘islature.” :

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. Among. thé three big local ‘centres, ‘Ter: >
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per cent of its motorisis. buckling up.:

» “Spéed-is- selevant to“road : onditions’ /
e Murray. said... ; : _
. Almost half. (49. 9 per cent) of all fatal ‘and

Jin jury motor. vehicle collisions are Caused by
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Murray”: said ‘deaths’. on ‘North. “District

Toadways have dropped steadily.
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