A young Prince George man will have a fine to pay to go along with recovering from the injuries he suffered during an encounter with a logging truck two weeks ago.
The 19-year-old has been issued a ticket for failing to obey a pedestrian signal following a Prince George RCMP investigation of the Nov. 7 incident at the intersection of Highway 97 and Fifth Avenue.
Police and emergency services were called to the scene at 4 a.m. where they found the man with serious injuries and transported him to hospital.
It had been determined that he was crossing the highway from east to west against a red light and walked into the back of an empty logging truck. The driver, unaware of what happened, had left the scene but was later contacted and found not to be responsible.
"Not all pedestrian collisions are the driver's fault. Many are a result of pedestrians failing to cross at marked intersections, being unpredictable or disobeying traffic signals, like in this case" said Prince RCMP traffic services Sgt. Al Steinhauser. "We ask that all pedestrians make eye contact with drivers, use proper crosswalks and be patient waiting at intersections."
The incident occurred two-and-a-half weeks after a Prince George man was killed when hit by a chip truck while crossing Highway 97 at 15th Street.
The truck's driver was determined not to be at fault in that incident as well after police determined he had been proceeding slowly through the intersection once the light had turned green and that the pedestrian, Miklos Bognar, 68, was not struck by the truck's front.
