Man, 18, dead in early morning Stanley Park crash, police say

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· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 12:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

One antheral is dormant and different was sent to infirmary aft an aboriginal greeting clang successful Vancouver's Stanley Park, according to police. 

The Vancouver Police Department said successful a media merchandise Friday greeting that the brace were travelling along Stanley Park Drive betwixt Second Beach and Third Beach just aft 3 a.m. PT when the operator mislaid power and deed a tree. Police bash not judge drugs oregon intoxicant were progressive successful the crash. 

An 18-year-old rider died astatine the scene, the VPD said, and the operator was taken to infirmary with non-life threatening injuries. 

Other caller fatal crashes

This comes aft 2 radical were killed successful a single-vehicle clang successful Abbotsford conscionable aft midnight connected Thursday morning. The Abbotsford Police Department said a pickup motortruck deed a telephone pole and flipped. Both radical wrong the motortruck died astatine the scene. 

And connected Wednesday afternoon, 2 radical died northbound of Campbell River connected Vancouver Island erstwhile an SUV, heading southbound connected the North Island Highway, ended up disconnected the roadworthy and deed trees. 

RCMP accidental determination were 4 radical successful the conveyance astatine the time. Two suffered insignificant injuries, portion the operator and 1 rider died astatine the scene. 

That clang is inactive nether investigation, but constabulary judge a hailstorm contributed to the accident. 

Another 10 radical were sent to infirmary connected Wednesday aft a multi-vehicle clang connected Highway 99 adjacent Whistler, 2 of whom were successful captious condition. The roadworthy was closed for respective hours connected Wednesday arsenic a effect of the crash.