Mounties block bridge

[Fancy]

Getting across the bridge safely without causing yet another reason for traffic to get backed up (like rear ending the car ahead or running over a traffic control officer while you are filming) should take first, second, and last precedence.
Not just my opinion.....its the law. Having my vehicle rear ended by a driver on their phone last year has left me a little sensitive...I will admit.

There's already a thread for that. This is regarding the excitement on the bridge. I am glad I didn't get caught up in it.

[60-YEARS-in-Ktown]

Precedence?
Getting across the bridge safely without causing yet another reason for traffic to get backed up (like rear ending the car ahead or running over a traffic control officer while you are filming) should take first, second, and last precedence.
Not just my opinion.....its the law. Having my vehicle rear ended by a driver on their phone last year has left me a little sensitive...I will admit.

I got rear ended at a standstill by a car doing about 60-70kph..
Makes you watch your rearview religiously...

[Fancy]

I was rear ended by a gawker - could easily have happened here as drivers pass by this chaotic scene.

[ferri]

I want to know what those two did besides play bumper cars!

[gman313]

I want to know what those two did besides play bumper cars!

they just needed time to shove 53 bags of heroin you know where like the last guy lol

[pmaria]

Looks like whatever it was started at least as far back as the junction of 97 and 97C. Global News posted a video of the suspect car ramming a police roadblock by the mill just west of Westbank.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3177513/rcmp- ... 50652996=1

[GordonH]

^^^ Oh geez a roadblock lets just ram it, thats good idea. Hmm... I may have change my awarding of idoit of January to that driver, instead of truck owner who drove onto Swan Lake.

[Zoso]

Cop must have known it was coming . Could have gotten seriously hurt if the car rearended the one with the dash cam .

[gman313]

Cop must have known it was coming . Could have gotten seriously hurt if the car rearended the one with the dash cam .

Yep

Thanks to all the RCMP members who put themselves on the line to stop this guy today. Well done!

[RVThereYet]

I want to know what those two did besides play bumper cars!

My sources tell me that the two individuals in the car fled from the US after one of them shot his wife, they came up this way and the RCMP took over the pursuit. Apparently the driver of the semi truck pictured in one of the photos on C-Net heard about it on his CB radio and when he saw the car blocked them in on the bridge. That's what I heard anyway...

[ferri]

Oh! That could sure explain it! Wow! Thanks!

[Glacier]

It was probably ferri's husband.

[ferri]

He'd be going a heck of a lot faster let me tell you!

[w84u2]

[dirtybiker]

Note to criminals looking for a speedy getaway..
Heading straight into the most heavily congested bottleneck
of traffic around, probably not the best idea.