'None of this should be happening': Stiffer fines coming for truckers who hit highway overpasses
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When a commercial truck carrying chickens struck a highway overpass in Langley Tuesday, it was the 28th overpass hit in B.C. since the start of 2022 according to provincial data. Fifteen of those crashes happened this year.
When a commercial truck carrying chickens struck a highway overpass in Langley Tuesday, it was the 28th overpass hit in B.C. since the start of 2022 according to provincial data.
Fifteen of those crashes happened this year.
The data also shows B.C. only went 11 days between the two most recent overpass strikes.
“None of this should be happening, and so it is a concern,” said Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Rob Fleming, who said his ministry has already taken action.
“In the last couple overpass strikes, what we’ve done is basically suspend all commercial activity for the entire fleet of the company that was involved for the duration of the investigation,” he said, adding that this is a heftier financial penalty than fines.
However, he also said that B.C. needs “stiffer penalties."
"Those are coming," he said.
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