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Vancouver Police Locate Car Involved In Collision That Claimed Ontario Skateboarder’s Life

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 22 Apr, 2016 01:09 PM
  • Vancouver Police Locate Car Involved In Collision That Claimed Ontario Skateboarder’s Life
Vancouver Police have recovered the vehicle believed to have been involved in the fatal hit-and-run collision on the west side of Vancouver that took the life of a skateboarder.
 
Around 2:30 a.m. on April 17th, two men were skateboarding in the area of Heather Street and West 54th Avenue when one of the men was hit by a northbound car in the 6900 block of Heather Street.
 
The driver of the vehicle left the scene without stopping.
 
The skateboarder, a 30-year-old man from Ontario, died in hospital a short time later.
 
On April 19th, police located the vehicle believed to have been involved in the collision at a home on the east side of Vancouver. That vehicle has been seized by police and is being processed by the Vancouver Police Forensics Unit.
 
Police are continuing to work to identify the driver of that vehicle.
 
The cause of the collision has yet to be determined.
 
Anyone with information about this collision and who has not yet spoken to the police, is asked to call the Vancouver Police at (604) 717-3012 or Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.

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