Close X
Monday, December 2, 2024
ADVT 
National

Coroner Names Man Killed In British Columbia After Being Hit By Passenger Train

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 30 Aug, 2016 01:06 PM
    SPENCES BRIDGE, B.C. — The coroners service in British Columbia has identified the 40-year-old Kelowna man hit and killed by a train near Spences Bridge.
     
    Coroner Larry Marzinzik says Jonathan Christopher Harris died early Saturday morning.
     
     
    Harris was on the tracks when he was hit by a Via Rail passenger train about 35-kilometres northeast of Lytton.
     
    Marzinzik says investigators have not yet determined why Harris was on the tracks or why he didn't hear the approaching locomotive.
     
    No one on the train was hurt.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Federal Government Expected To Act On 2012 Report Examining Fraser River Sockeye

    Federal Government Expected To Act On 2012 Report Examining Fraser River Sockeye
    The 75 findings in the three-year, $26-million report languished with little if any attention from the former Conservative government.

    Federal Government Expected To Act On 2012 Report Examining Fraser River Sockeye

    Police Identify Victim Of Fatal Stabbing Outside Pub In Coquitlam, B.C.

    Police Identify Victim Of Fatal Stabbing Outside Pub In Coquitlam, B.C.
    Suspect In Fatal Coquitlam Stabbing On The Loose

    Police Identify Victim Of Fatal Stabbing Outside Pub In Coquitlam, B.C.

    Police Say Liesel The 12-Day-Old Filly Was Filched From A Langley, B.C., Farm

    Although she's young, the horse's warmblood Oldenburg breed makes her valued at between $10,000 and $20,000.

    Police Say Liesel The 12-Day-Old Filly Was Filched From A Langley, B.C., Farm

    Teen Girl Dies Of Apparent Drug Overdose In Port Moody, B.C., Starbucks

    Teen Girl Dies Of Apparent Drug Overdose In Port Moody, B.C., Starbucks
    Emergency crews were called to the cafe around 5:19 p.m. Sunday after an employee found an unresponsive female in the washroom.

    Teen Girl Dies Of Apparent Drug Overdose In Port Moody, B.C., Starbucks

    Internet Meme For 'Suicide Squad' Film Ridicules Death Of Amanda Todd: Mom

    Carol Todd says the meme that includes her daughter, actor Robin Williams and rocker Kurt Cobain under a film banner from the new movie "Suicide Squad" ridicules the 15-year-old who took her own life after intense cyberbullying.

    Internet Meme For 'Suicide Squad' Film Ridicules Death Of Amanda Todd: Mom

    Life-Sized Human Figures Made From Tape Appear On Edmonton Bridge

    Was it an art project? Were they meant to draw attention to the number of people who've killed themselves by jumping off the High Level Bridge?

    Life-Sized Human Figures Made From Tape Appear On Edmonton Bridge