A video released by BC Highway Patrol aims to show the consequences of poor driving choices, especially for young drivers.

Cellphone video shared by the highway patrol, which was voluntarily given to police, shows an Abbotsford, B.C., teen and two friends driving down Highway 1 at Popkum on July 21, 2025.

The BMW sedan, which belonged to the 16-year-old driver’s stepmother, according to police, was recorded going 180 km/h in a 100 zone.

The video shows the teen driver deciding not to stop for the police and instead speeding off, with the collision ending in a crash with a parked dump truck.

“Nobody likes getting stopped by police, but this video shows the alternative is usually much worse,” Cpl. Michael McLaughlin with BC Highway Patrol said in a statement.

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“You can see how quickly the teen’s friends went from enjoying the ride to ‘don’t kill us.’”

After the crash, the driver can be heard saying, “Run!” with one of the passengers saying, “Run where?”

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The 16-year-old Class 7 learner driver is now serving a 12-month licence suspension and was found guilty of excessive speed, with a fine of $483; driving without due care and attention, with a fine of $368; driving contrary to restrictions (too many passengers), with a fine of $109; driving contrary to restrictions (no supervisor), with a fine of $109; driving without a “L” sign, with a fine of $109; failing to obey a stop sign, with a fine of $167; passing on the right side of the roadway, with a fine of $109; and an improperly equipped motor vehicle, with a fine of $109.

Actual fines can still vary as they can be increased or reduced at sentencing.

“We hope this video stimulates parents to talk with their children about how badly this could have ended,” McLaughlin said.

“We all need to do more to prevent tragic outcomes.”

The car was towed and impounded for seven days, and the driver’s stepmother was also left responsible for paying the associated costs as well as any collision deductible or repairs.

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The new rapid transit system proposed for 1st Avenue in Saskatoon has some businesses concerned.

The plan includes removing 61 parking spaces on the street and making designated bus lanes.

“They’re turning 1st Avenue into one lane of traffic for motorists and two lanes of traffic each way for the bus lanes. We’re curious as to how snow removal is going to work with this one lane,” said Keith Moen, North Saskatoon Business Association executive director.

“In regards to parking, we all know how much of a sore spot that is when it comes to parking downtown,” said Shawna Nelson, Downtown Saskatoon Business Improvement District executive director.

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NSBA and Downtown Saskatoon BID represent a combined 1,700 businesses in Saskatoon.

They are bringing their concerns into the spotlight, saying the city hasn’t considered businesses in the area.

“Why it matters is because the 1t Avenue is a major, critical downtown corridor. It connects obviously businesses, offices, restaurants and services to customers and employees every day. Changes to the traffic flow have real economic impact on businesses operating in this area,” said Moen.

Parking seems to be the main concern with businesses Global News spoke to on 1st Avenue, saying this will heavily impact them.

“We’ve gotten a lot of business through foot traffic, through people parking in front of our storefront and seeing our sign outside and seeing the craft we do once they come inside,” said Miguel Robles, a director of Robles Goldsmith & Jewellery, a business on 1st Avenue.

He said this affects not only their clientele, but delivery as well.

“So, couriers dropping, picking up, we don’t have in our location, at least along this strip, a rear area that we can actually have the depot.”

In a statement to Global News, the city says a design report is currently being worked on for April’s transportation committee meeting and the design team will continue to work with NSBA and Downtown Saskatoon BID in the future.

Watch above for more on what businesses on 1st Avenue in Saskatoon have to say.

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A Calgary city councillor is looking to the city for options in order to make a Northeast Calgary intersection safer a week after a child was involved in a hit and run in the area.

Twelve-year-old Bentley St. John was on his way to school on Tuesday, March 10, when he was hit by a white vehicle in a marked crosswalk at Taradale Drive and Taravista Way.

“We need to do something because yes, it is dangerous,” says Ward 5 Coun. Raj Dhaliwal.

During a meeting at city hall on Tuesday, Dhaliwal asked administration to tell the “residents of Taradale and Ward 5 what tangible and safety measures, interventions can be immediately deployed to enhance the pedestrian safety at this intersection.”

Operational services general manager Doug Morgan responded by saying that there are no records of any collisions at the intersection over the past 19 years based on the collision database.

“We had a collision in November 2023 within the playground zone,” he said. “We took action by installing … physical traffic calming measures to slow the traffic down. We did look at this intersection. There are marked crosswalks, as we saw in the video, and this was a blatant error or mistake by the driver as well as the drivers that drove by.”

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Dhaliwal said he was surprised to see that there was no data for that specific intersection.

“What does that mean now? Does that mean that people are not reporting enough? Maybe they’re reactive to an incident, but we got to be more proactive,” said Dhaliwal.

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Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas says despite there not being any past issues at the intersection, there’s still the need to double down on enforcement, engineering and education.

“This is a massive issue for Calgarians. We are likely to be seeing in this year the most dangerous year ever in Calgary’s history to be a pedestrian,” Farkas says.

According to statistics from Calgary police, there were nearly 80 pedestrians hit in the city between Jan 1 and Feb. 28 of this year. Those numbers, however, don’t include pedestrians hit during the month of March including Bentley.

During a media scrum, Dhaliwal told reporters that his request for pedestrian lights at Tarra Lake Way and Taradale Drive last year was fulfilled, and hopes to get another at the intersection of Taradale Drive and Taravista Way.

“We need to do a proper control there, and maybe pedestrian lights … will be a solution,” says Dhaliwal.

Bentley’s uncle, Garry Sinclair, tells Global News that he doesn’t think having pedestrian lights will reduce the number of pedestrians being hit.

“I don’t think it would make a difference. I’ve been at intersections with streetlights (and when) it’s telling you to cross, you start crossing and people still are ignoring it,” he says.

Sinclair says Bentley is still at home recovering with a broken leg.

Calgary police say they are still looking for the suspect vehicle that was involved in the hit and run.

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After two pedestrians were killed over the Family Day long weekend, Calgary city councillors are awaiting a response from the provincial government to find new measures to help improve traffic safety.

A toddler in a stroller was killed after being hit in a marked crosswalk in the city’s southwest Sunday afternoon, and a senior was also struck in a marked crosswalk less than 24 hours later in northwest Calgary.

They were Calgary’s seventh and eighth fatal collisions in 2026 — a concerning trend, according to the Calgary Police Service, after 38 fatal crashes were recorded in 2025 including the deaths of 15 pedestrians.

“We did see an increase overall last year so to see the year start at this volume is definitely concerning for how the rest of it is going to go,” said A/Insp. Shelby Stewart told reporters Monday.

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New photo radar rules in effect in Alberta

During city council’s meeting Tuesday morning, Ward 3 Coun. Andrew Yule asked the mayor about any progress in advocating the provincial government to restore photo radar enforcement.

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Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas said he spoke with Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen late last year about improving traffic safety, but is waiting for a response to a formal letter he sent the minister on Feb 12.

In that letter, Farkas said the removal of photo radar “has led to an upswing in speed-related collisions,” noting there were more than 900 pedestrian collisions and 27 fatalities between 2024 and 2025, which he said is a “critical public safety crisis.”

Farkas called on the province to restore the municipal share of traffic fine revenue, which was clawed back in 2020, as well as a review of the decision to restrict photo radar enforcement.

According to Farkas, any restored revenue would be allocated to traffic-safety improvements, including safer intersections, crosswalk upgrades, school-zone protections, and traffic-calming measures.

“That’s the way I think this solves the problem, it takes the politics out of the issue and lowers the heat,” Farkas told reporters. “If the fine revenue is being earmarked specifically for road safety improvements, it makes a lot more sense to me as a Calgarian, and I think we can help build the case with the public that this isn’t just another cash grab.”

Farkas said the move could unlock upwards of $30 million annually for the city to invest in traffic safety.

In a statement to Global News, Dreeshen said the province, “has no plans to expand photo radar beyond the current framework.”

“I am scheduling a meeting with Mayor Farkas in the coming weeks to discuss support for safer streets through targeted infrastructure improvements,” Dreeshen said in a statement.

“Our government established the $13 million Traffic Safety Fund, which municipalities can access to improve high-risk intersections through measures like better signage, signal timing, lighting, and road redesign.”

During budget deliberations last year, city council approved funding for each ward to install two new rectangular rapid flashing beacons at a location of their choice.

Another $7.5 million was also approved to fund traffic and pedestrian safety improvements in the city’s Vision Zero plan, which aims to reduce traffic injuries and fatalities by 25 per cent by 2028 through street design and crosswalk improvements.

Yule told reporters that city council is aligned in its goal to invest in pedestrian safety

“We’ve got our four-year budget coming up and you’re going to see a lot of investment from our side,” Yule said.

“Definitely looking for other levels of government to make sure that we have all the tools at our disposal.”

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One of Saskatoon’s most dangerous intersections is 51st and Millar, with 161 collisions in the last five years. As such, the city has proposed changes to its design, including blocking left-turning lanes into the McDonald’s and Wendy’s as well as adding sidewalks along Millar Avenue.

However, there are concerns about how the new features on Millar would affect surrounding businesses.

“They had concerns around access to their property, truck-turning radiuses for deliveries and things like that because it’s a larger infrastructure — that’s the transportation vehicles that are going into these businesses to help stock their equipment and so on,” said Keith Moen, executive director of NSBA, speaking on what businesses in the area had to say.

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Moen adds that while the intersection is dangerous, he wants more thought gone into how traffic concerns will be handled.

“We think it’s a bigger project than what is currently required,” Moen said. “The fact is that they’re looking at two pathways, one along each side (of Millar Avenue), and we’re not even sure how much they’re going to be used, and that’s a lot of money to be putting towards it, so we think that there’s a better way to look at spending the money.”

But not everyone is opposed to the changes. Saskatoon Cycles agrees the intersection is hazardous and says it could be more accessible to all modes of transportation.

“This intersection is extremely inhospitable to anybody who’s not driving a car or a truck. It’s as if there’s a sign saying, ‘You are not welcome here,’” said Jason Hanson, communications manager for Saskatoon Cycles.

“I don’t think the city wants that, we don’t want that, and I don’t think most of the businesses in this area want that, either. We want to have a city that’s just inclusive for everybody, regardless of what kind of mode of transportation you have.”

The decision on the intersection improvement plan has been deferred to allow city administration to engage with businesses that would be affected. Talks are expected to begin again in the next few months.

Watch above for more on the mixed reactions about the proposed intersection changes.

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Alberta RCMP say one person is dead and more than a dozen are injured after a charter bus hit the median east of Grande Prairie.

According to police, at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to the collision approximately one kilometre west of the hamlet of Debolt.

Police said an initial investigation found the bus hit the median and rolled over once, landing on its wheels.

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A total of 37 people were on board the bus, including adults and children. RCMP confirmed in a news release that a 50-year-old woman from Grande Prairie died as a result of the collision.

Firefighters and multiple paramedics were dispatched; they assessed six passengers who were in serious condition and sent to hospital via ambulance. Their conditions are not known at this time.

A bus was brought in to transport 16 other patients to hospital who were said to have minor injuries. They were released after being checked.

The remaining passengers who were not injured were transported to the Debolt fire hall.

RCMP collision reconstructionists attended the scene. While the crash is still under investigation, road conditions are believed to be a factor.

Local victim services, alongside the RCMP’s victim and family liaison officers, have been engaged. People impacted by the incident are asked to contact their local RCMP; resources will be provided.

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Commuters around the Lower Mainland are being warned to leave extra time as bridge closures are taking effect starting Friday evening.

Starting at 8 p.m., the Pattullo Bridge and the stal̕əw̓asəm (Riverview) Bridge will be closed for a week to connect the roadways on either side to the new bridge.

Drivers will have to take the Port Mann Bridge or the Alex Fraser Bridge as alternative routes.

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Following the closure, the bridges will reopen with four lanes of traffic split between the stal̕əw̓asəm and Pattullo bridges.

Now, the Royal Avenue on-ramp to the Pattullo Bridge is closed for crews to remove a portion of the retaining wall alongside the Bridge Connector and advance construction of the new on-ramp, connections to roadways on either side of the new bridge and the Royal-Agnes multi-use path overpass.

The new Royal Avenue on-ramp to the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge will open in late February.

All four lanes, including the new Royal Avenue on-ramp, will open on the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge in late February.

Once the stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge is fully open, the Pattullo Bridge will be removed, which is expected to take about two years, according to the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project.

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