Two people were taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning following a head-on crash that shut down the Barnet Highway.
Burnaby RCMP said the crash happened near the Suncor intersection just before 7 a.m.
An electric vehicle burst into flames and was fully involved when firefighters arrived, RCMP said, but they were able to pull the driver out.
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“EV battery, the technology, the fires tend to not want to go out, so we have a blanket that we can blanket the vehicle to kind of smother it and reduce the flare-up of the car fire,” Burnaby Asst. Fire Chief Dan Walton said.
A second vehicle, a Jeep, went off the road and trapped the driver inside.
Both drivers had serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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“You know we have done some canvassing in the area, we are asking anyone who was on Barnet, doesn’t even have to be at Suncor Energy where the collision occurred, if you were east or west of there say between 6:30 and 7 o’clock we would love to hear from you because sometimes we just want to see driving evidence minutes or 10 to 15 minutes before the collision occurred,” Cpl. Mike Kalanj with Burnaby RCMP said.
The highway opened around 4:30 p.m.
We need to give the medal of honor to the brave young men who took the driver from the elctrical burning vehicle. My good friend going to work and saving the life . Like he said, the car exploded a few second after the driver was taking out of the vehicle
Hey anonymous, I agree to some extent. Definitely over the years definitely worsening drivers, but it’s not just south Asian people, it’s many foreigners coming into Canada and the foreign driving instructors who are passing these drivers is the problem! Over the last several years the drivers have become increasingly aggressive, careless and incompetent. Definitely some seriously stupid habits and mistakes people are making. I see these issues multiple times a day! I used to enjoy driving not I actually dislike driving as I feel my stress levels go up when I drive. Certainly not just women drivers it’s both men and women who are completely irresponsible and incompetent. . For you to blame only the women, I’ll bet you are a man. And to bring this up in a thread where the two drivers who where both seriously injured and btw were both male drivers, is inconsiderate.
It’s very, very simple to deduce and understand. 30% of people driving should not be (they have no regard for driving regulations) and 80% of that 30% are South Asian (half being women). What ICBC needs to do is implement a retesting of drivers before renewing insurance, and they have to become much stricter before licensing drivers. The way South Asian people drive is much worse than terrible.
YES YES , MORE EV’S PLEASE ! VERY SAFE FOR ALL