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Saskatchewan Worker Thrown Width Of Football Field After Being Struck By SUV: RCMP

The Canadian Press, 14 Aug, 2015 12:23 PM

WEYBURN, Sask. — A highway flag person who was struck and killed by a SUV was thrown nearly 60 metres, a Saskatchewan RCMP officer testified Thursday.

Ashley Dawn Richards, who was 18, was killed on her first day on the job near Midale, Sask., on Aug. 24, 2012.

Keith Dunford has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death.

RCMP accident reconstructionist Cpl. Jeffrey Burett testified that Dunford's SUV was going between 82 to 99 kilometres per hour when it Richards.

The posted speed in construction zones is 60 km/h.

Burett said Richards was thrown 58.8 metres — the width of a Canadian football field — after she was struck.

"Unable to locate any signs of pre-collision braking," Burett told court.

Semi-truck driver Katherina Neufeld testified the SUV passed her in the construction zone, then swerved and hit a flag post.

Richards was originally from Lakeside, N.B.

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