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Driving licenses up for further restricitons

' By JESSIE GIES
THE PROVINCE could be
taking the joy out of joy
tiding for some high school
students learning to drive
in B.C.

Though the move to
..: lengthen the probation pe-
~~ tlod for driving youth could
“potentially keep the roads
». safer, the proposed legisla-
-. tion has put a damper on
"summer plans for local
Students like Brian Todd.
~ "I think they're treating
. “too much — like
children,” said Todd, a
; Grade 12 student at Cale-
“<4 donia Senior Secondary
. school,
Under the proposed new
legislation, the driving
learning period will be in-
<-. ¢reased to 12 months from
~~! -six*months and the novice
“period will be lengthened
: 18 months to 24

“Today we're doing

oe, more to follow up on our
“New. Era commitment to

‘improving public safety,”
_. said’ Rich Coleman, the
'. solicitor. general for the
~ province.
.. Statistics from 2001
_ show young drivers, who
constitute nine per cent of
the driving population,
cause 16 per cent of all
- crashes involving fatality
“or injury.
~. “With summer. fast-ap-
» proaching, it’s appropriate
~that we engage the public
in.a discussion of how to
make -our streets safer,”
Coleman said.
’ ~~. Other proposed changes
_include, raising the super-
vising age from 19 to 25
~. for.those with. a learner’s
licence.
“Novice drivers may be
_. required to be prohibition-
--free for the two years. If a
“novice commits too many
infractions, they will have
to start-their novice period
over again as opposed to
~ having the period extended
as the law now states.

The passenger limit for:
-novice- drivers will also. be

lowered ‘fram’ 10 people to
‘one-‘unrelated person with-
out supervision of a person
25 or older.

tudents dispute proposal

NOVICE DRIVER Brian Todd (bottom left) sits with fellow Caledonia Senior Secondary students Matthew '

Asselstine (bottom right), Trina Bruneau (top left) and Andrea Harmel. If the new youth driving proposal!
passes into law, learning drivers will have to limit passengers to one unrelated person under 25.

“I think this is so
dumb,” said Grade 12
student Andrea Harmel.

The students were out-
raged by the idea of plac-
ing the passenger limit at
one person,

“Now if we try to car
pool to soccer games, we
will have to take three
cars instead of one,” said
Grade 12 student Matthew
Asselstine.

A. graduated licensing
program was introduced in
1998 forcing learners to
display an “L” on their
cars and novice drivers to
display an “N.”

The ministry of public
safety reported a reduction
in new-driver crash rates
by almost 26 per cent
since 1998.

“We're anticipating.
more crash reduction if we
implement these
changes,” ICBC official
Susan Bigelow said.

The changes won't ap-
ply to drivers nearing the
end of their learning or no-
vice period, unless their

licence is revoked or up
for renewal.

If a driver loses their
licence or gets their learn-
ers or novice renewed,
they will then be subject
to the changes if the pro-
posal passes,

Those interested in

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The average tempera-

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News In Brief

New Aiyansh shooting
death accidental: police

TERRACE palice say the deaths of two New
Aiyansh residents appear to be the result of an ac-
cidental shooting followed by a suicide.

The bodies of Marvin Anthony Welde, 25, and
Janine Munroe, 26, were discovered in their home
by a relative June 1.

What initially appeared to be a murder-suicide
was reclassified after. members from the
Nass/Lissims RCMP detachment and the North
District major crime unit investigated further, says
Terrace RCMP Staff Sgt. Jas Basi.

“Through our investigation and forensics we’ ve
determined one of the parties may have been dis-
traught and a struggle occurred and in the course of
the struggle the weapon went off,” Staff Sgt. Basi
said,

It appears Welde was distraught and holding a
long barrel rifle when the altercation happened.
When Munroe tried to take the gun away from him
it went off, killing the woman, he said.

He then turned the gun on himself, Basi. said,
adding police have no indications why the man
was SO upset.

“T think the citizens of New Aiyansh should be
aware that this is an. isolated case and public safe-
ty is not an issue,” Basi said, adding the.deaths of |,
the two young people has rocked the small com-
munity 100 km north of Terrace.

The village council called in grief counsellors to
help the community deal with the loss, he added.

Bird causes outage |:

A WAYWARD raven lefi Terrace residents with-
out power for about 50 minutes on June 5.

The raven got into some substation equipment on
Park Ave. at approximately 6:40 a.m, last Thursday
causing a power outage in the west half of the city.

“He won't do that again,” assured Dan Gilgan of ~
B.C. Hydro.

The raven was electrocuted and. found dead on
arrival.

Drier than normal!

TERRACE AND Prince Rupert were among the
only places in the province to have at least ‘aver-
age levels of precipitation in May, according to
Environment Canada.

Smithers received only 27.4 mm of rain while
Terrace received 53.3 mm and Prince Rupert
soaked up almost triple that with 148.6 mm of pre-
cipitation.

The highest temperature here in May was 22.7
degrees Celsius and the lowest was -.3,7 degrees |
recorded May 6, beating the 1965 record for that J,
day.

Vancouver was the only area in B. C. that recor-
ded above normal temperatures for May, and by:
only 0.1 degrees. Environment Canada ‘said that for
the most part, May was a cool month for B.C.

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