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Five more victims of deadly day on B.C. roads, highways named by coroner
Original Publication Date: September 8, 2014 8:21AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 10:11PM
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – The names of five people who lost their lives during a deadly 24-hour stretch on British Columbia’s roads and highways have been released.
Ten people died last Thursday and Friday in accidents in northeastern B.C., the Cariboo and the Fraser Valley.
A head-on crash between a flatbed and pickup truck northwest of Fort St. John on Thursday killed 28-year-old David Newbold and his passenger 22-year-old Jenna Bloy of Grande Cache, Alta.
A couple in the pickup, 72-two-year-old Kenneth Reed and 65-year-old Cheryl Reed both of Balgonie, Sask., also died in the accident.
Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Wu of Fort St. John died the same day during an accident near the northwestern, B.C. community of Goodlow.
A head-on crash near Quesnel killed three people, and two men died during accidents in B.C.’s south, all within hours of each other.
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