Ai0- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September | , 1999

Duo escape
truck inferno

A THORNHILL man and
his brother are lucky to e¢s-
cape an Aug. 24 vehicle fire
in the 3100 hundred block
of Kofoed Drive unharmed,
David Brochw had just left
his home and bad driven no
more than a few hundred
yards, when he smelled gas
wafting from his’ Ford
Ranger. oe
Minutes later his pick up
truck was in flanies-and a
complete wrile off @ 0 -.
We tamed. around and.
then a big flame shot out the
exhaust,’’ said 13-year-old
passenger Daniel Brochu,

“Then there was a noise
and big flame in the front of
the truck,”’

The fire was caused by a
broken fuel line that leaked
and ‘sparked a fire, said
Thornhill fire chief Art Hill,

Flames ‘acted so fast that
by the time the brothers got
out-of the vehicle the trai] of
gas. from. the truck: had al-.
nos! strrounded the truck.

‘There’ were. flames
around the vehicle as well;”
said Hill. es

The ruined truck was not
insured for fire purposes,
said Hill,

No more charges in
fatal grad car crash

RCMP DECIDED last week
nat to praceed with criminal
charges against Jeffrey
Louis Payne, the passenger
in the stolen car involved in
last June’s fatal accident at
the four-way stop in Thorn-
bill.

Crown prosecutors. consid-
tred charging Payne with
possession of stolen proper-
ly, but said there was not
enough evidence ta convict
him.

The driver of the car,
Aaron James Douglas faces
nine charges including two
counts of criminal
negligence causing — the
deaths of Caledonia Senior
Secondary student Laura
Allison Lee, 17, and Rotary
exchange student Renauld
Maurice Fontaine.

Fontaine and Lee died at
the intersection of Hwy37
and 16 June 12, 1999 when
a stolen car being chased by
RCMP | broadsided their
Toyota Tercel.

RCMP estimated Douglas,
alleged to be impaired at the
lime, was driving as fast.as
140 -kilometres per hour
when the accident hap-
pened.

Douglas also faces two
charges of impaired driving
causing death, possession of
slolen properly and breach
of probation for an offence
committed while he was a
young offender.

He will be held in custody
in. Prince George until his
preliminary hearing Jan. 10,
2000. The hearing is sched-
uled to last three days.

Assault witnesses sought

TERRACE RCMP are looking for witnesses who saw a
23-year-old Terrace man assaulted near Aug. 20.

The man was walking down Kalum toward Greig Ave-
hue between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. when he was attacked.

He sustained injuries ta his head and face and required

cdica] altention.

* Call Crimestoppers at 635-TIPS or the Terrace RCMP a

638-7400 if you can help.

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