Traffic

Crashes increase significantly during winter months in B.C. (Submitted photo)

B.C. drivers face higher risk of crashing in December

Claims for injuries from work-related crashes rise in 12th month

 

Longtime education assistant Caroline Thompson serves as crossing guard twice a day at the intersection of Cook and Quadra streets in Saanich. Her goal is to get students, and the general public, across the road safely in a sometimes hostile environment. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

VIDEO: Parents petition to avoid ‘preventable’ tragedy at Island intersection

Crossing guard, parents say they see dangerous driving, with several ‘near-misses’

 

IIO

Police actions couldn’t have prevented Island Highway fatality, IIO says

Erratic driving reported to police followed by Subaru going down embankment

 

A truck overturned near the Quadra Street off-ramp on Highway 17. (Screenshot/@ChillAsHellYYJ/Twitter)

Saanich highway traffic ‘significantly impacted’ after truck overturns

Police warn drivers about crash

A truck overturned near the Quadra Street off-ramp on Highway 17. (Screenshot/@ChillAsHellYYJ/Twitter)
The City of Colwood is moving ahead with a trail of reflective road markers on some city streets, but council rejected a proposed trial of glow-in-the-dark road markings over its high cost. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. town rejects groundbreaking glow-in-dark road paint over price tag

Photoluminescent paint common in Europe not coming to Victoria suburb because of cost

The City of Colwood is moving ahead with a trail of reflective road markers on some city streets, but council rejected a proposed trial of glow-in-the-dark road markings over its high cost. (Black Press Media file photo)
The Malahat often sees congestion. (Instagram/bokarrasvlogs)

Expect Malahat highway delays near Victoria as drainage work begins

Single-lane alternating traffic rules will apply in the evenings

The Malahat often sees congestion. (Instagram/bokarrasvlogs)
Rachel Camire is a traffic control person from Langford who works for Universal Group. (Photo courtesy of WorkSafeBC)

‘Threats’ and ‘brushing their hair’: Greater Victoria traffic controller sees the worst

Worker from Langford speaks out about dangers from drivers at cone zones

Rachel Camire is a traffic control person from Langford who works for Universal Group. (Photo courtesy of WorkSafeBC)
A screenshot of Google Maps from Friday Aug. 4 at around 11:30 a.m., which suggested drivers that are looking to travel up the Malahat Highway use Finlayson Arm Road as a way to beat the traffic. (Courtesy of Google Maps)

Island officials plead with Google to stop sending traffic down ‘cow trail’

Narrow, rural road Finlayson Arm Road is increasingly used as a way to avoid Malahat traffic snarls

A screenshot of Google Maps from Friday Aug. 4 at around 11:30 a.m., which suggested drivers that are looking to travel up the Malahat Highway use Finlayson Arm Road as a way to beat the traffic. (Courtesy of Google Maps)
A Langford man is dead after a crash involving a Porsche, say RCMP. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy

Langford driver found dead after Porsche crashes in Shawnigan Lake

RCMP have launched an investigation

A Langford man is dead after a crash involving a Porsche, say RCMP. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
View Royal Fire Rescue on scene of a July 19 morning crash on Highway 1. (Black Press Media photo)

5-vehicle rear-end crash messes up Greater Victoria morning commute

Commuters stuck in traffic

View Royal Fire Rescue on scene of a July 19 morning crash on Highway 1. (Black Press Media photo)
This is the bridge construction area where an officer was struck by a motorcyclist July 7. The Chemainus River truss bridge is now shut down on the Trans-Canada Highway and single lane traffic in each direction will continue on the span bridge for quite some time. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Police officer injured after being struck by a motorcycle near Chemainus

Motorcyclist failed to stop in a construction zone after weaving in and out of traffic

This is the bridge construction area where an officer was struck by a motorcyclist July 7. The Chemainus River truss bridge is now shut down on the Trans-Canada Highway and single lane traffic in each direction will continue on the span bridge for quite some time. (Photo by Don Bodger)
A pedestrian who was killed crossing Highway 97A just south of Enderby Saturday, July 1, 2023, has been identified as Harry Joesph Jones Jr. (Miranda Kimbasekt/Facebook)

Splatsin calls for traffic light at Okanagan crosswalk where band member was killed

Harry Jones Jr. was killed while crossing Highway 97A in a marked crosswalk on Canada Day

A pedestrian who was killed crossing Highway 97A just south of Enderby Saturday, July 1, 2023, has been identified as Harry Joesph Jones Jr. (Miranda Kimbasekt/Facebook)
A Victoria food app delivery driver has been criticized online for parking on a sidewalk to make a delivery. (Nell Saba photo)

‘WTF?’: Victoria food delivery driver dragged online for parking on sidewalk

But some blame the gig economy more than the driver

A Victoria food app delivery driver has been criticized online for parking on a sidewalk to make a delivery. (Nell Saba photo)
Traffic is moving slowly northbound on the Malahat section of the Trans-Canada Highway heading out of Langford Friday (June 30) morning. (Courtesy Drive BC)

Traffic moving slowly northbound on Malahat

Long weekend traffic jams appear to have started as of 11:30 a.m. Friday

Traffic is moving slowly northbound on the Malahat section of the Trans-Canada Highway heading out of Langford Friday (June 30) morning. (Courtesy Drive BC)
Douglas Street and Finlayson Street saw 232 crashes between 2018 and 2022, according to ICBC data. (Google Street View)

These are the worst intersections in Victoria for crashes

ICBC updates data for 2022

Douglas Street and Finlayson Street saw 232 crashes between 2018 and 2022, according to ICBC data. (Google Street View)
A rendering shows what a proposed ultra-light rail unit could look like on the West Shore. ThinkEco Power is pitching the battery-powered train trial to several West Shore municipalities and the CRD, with View Royal and Colwood already putting their support behind the proposal. (Courtesy of ThinkEco Power)

Colwood joins View Royal to support ultra-light train trial

The proposed trial would see a 3-km stretch of land used to prove the battery-powered train concept

A rendering shows what a proposed ultra-light rail unit could look like on the West Shore. ThinkEco Power is pitching the battery-powered train trial to several West Shore municipalities and the CRD, with View Royal and Colwood already putting their support behind the proposal. (Courtesy of ThinkEco Power)
B.C. law requires drivers approaching and driving through roadside work zones to slow down and drive with care, pay attention and avoid using your phone and follow instructions from traffic control persons or devices such as temporary road signs (Pixabay).

B.C. roadside workers brace for another summer of reckless drivers

For traffic control crews, summer’s arrival means an already dangerous job gets even more hazardous

B.C. law requires drivers approaching and driving through roadside work zones to slow down and drive with care, pay attention and avoid using your phone and follow instructions from traffic control persons or devices such as temporary road signs (Pixabay).
The incident happened on Sunday (June 11) at the area known as Clover Point – popular with residents and tourists who get off nearby at the cruise ship terminal – with a vehicle hopping a curb and taking out two of the benches. (@Baronjutter photo/Twitter)

Driver takes out beach benches on notorious Victoria ‘drag race strip’

Driver hopped a curb in area heavily used by cyclists and pedestrians

The incident happened on Sunday (June 11) at the area known as Clover Point – popular with residents and tourists who get off nearby at the cruise ship terminal – with a vehicle hopping a curb and taking out two of the benches. (@Baronjutter photo/Twitter)
A pickup driver is being blamed by police for causing a View Royal crash that backed up traffic early Monday, June 5. (West Shore RCMP)

UPDATE: Pickup driver ticketed for running red light, causing View Royal crash

Crash causes 1.5-hour closure heading into Victoria during early Monday commute

A pickup driver is being blamed by police for causing a View Royal crash that backed up traffic early Monday, June 5. (West Shore RCMP)
A video of drivers in Victoria heading into oncoming traffic is being used to bring attention to repeated violations on roads that are part of the Johnson Street Bridge. (Screenshot)

VIDEO: ‘Dumb ways to die’: Victoria drivers U-turn into traffic to avoid raised bridge

Second video in two months showing drivers going the wrong way

A video of drivers in Victoria heading into oncoming traffic is being used to bring attention to repeated violations on roads that are part of the Johnson Street Bridge. (Screenshot)