On 1/19/07 5:41 PM, "David Marshall" <sales@fastforward.ca> wrote:

> I just drove from Kamloops to Vancouver with some all seasons on a Syncro
> Transporter with a 1.8t engine in the bed - no real issues at all and there
> was LOTS of snow.  Drive at a respectable speed and you are set.
> 
> 
> 
> We probably would, but I�ve seen too many fatalities on that highway. I don�t
> drive it all that often in winter, but almost every time I�ve driven to
> Kelowna I�ve passed a fatal accident., on the Coq or the Connector.  It�s
> gotten so I don�t even like heading up there anymore; I�m cautious, but it�s
> the other guy that scare hell outta me. Just last year I came upon on accident
> just this side of the toll booth �it had just happened. The highway was pure
> ice. This truck driver comes up to me and asks me if I know first aid (some)
> and leads me to this smashed in SUV. The driver is leaning over, towards the
> passenger door, and his head is opened up. I took his pulse but nothing. His
> wife was standing there in the blowing snow trying not to freak out. The three
> of us stood out there in a blizzard waiting for the cops and an ambulance, and
> there were so many near-misses on that stretch of highway. People are insane.
> This guy died because he booted it try to pass a low boy, spun out and smashed
> in the side of the cab of his SUV on the back of the truck bed.