{"id":53316,"date":"2025-08-08T01:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:02:06","slug":"collisions-kill-at-least-four-cyclists-and-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53316\/","title":{"rendered":"Collisions kill at least four cyclists and pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past four weeks, the lives of at least four cyclists and pedestrians have been lost in separate vehicle collisions on Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n

At the busy Saanich crosswalk at Quadra Street and Greenridge Crescent, a cyclist was struck by the driver of a pickup truck and critically injured July 28. She died Monday, Aug. 3 from her injuries.<\/p>\n

Flowers left at the roadside include a card that reads, \u201cTo Sylvie, you will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ PREVIOUS: Cyclist dies after collision in Saanich: BC Coroners Service<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean Murdock, mayor of Saanich, said this tragedy reinforces how important it is to proactively take steps to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on the roads.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly saddened by this tragedy. This is a person who was killed using one of our roads. They didn\u2019t make it home to their family,\u201d Murdock said. <\/p>\n

Watch the full report below:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of a number of deadly collisions involving vulnerable road users in the last four weeks on the Island.<\/p>\n

On July 15, an 83-year-old Courtenay woman died<\/a> when she was hit by a semi-truck near Comox while cycling.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, on July 29, at the intersection of Esquimalt Road and Head Street a collision<\/a> involving a pedestrian and the driver of a vehicle. The pedestrian died as a result of their injuries.<\/p>\n

Also on July 29<\/a>, a man died after the driver of a vehicle struck him as he was lying in the middle of the road in the 200-block of St. George Street.<\/p>\n

According to ICBC<\/a>, every year in BC an average of seven cyclists, and 53 pedestrians are killed in collisions.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: \u2018Such a tragedy\u2019: Cycling community grieves after three deaths in one week<\/a><\/p>\n

Municipalities are working to improve safety for all road users.<\/p>\n

In Victoria, for instance, the timing of lights have been altered in 30-intersections that give pedestrians a five second head start while crossing.<\/p>\n

Richard Adam, acting assistant director of transportation and engineering for the City of Victoria, said leading pedestrian intervals are designed to increase the security of pedestrians in the intersection.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll see the pedestrian walk light come up three to five seconds before the green light for traffic. Again, that just allows the pedestrian to get a head start into the intersection. And it\u2019s particularly effective in managing conflicts between turning vehicles, and those pedestrians,\u201d Adam said. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s proven to reduce collisions by up to 60 per cent. Murdock says Saanich is working on improving safety measures for vulnerable road users.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur road safety action plan spells out a number of actions that we are taking as a district across the community, whether those are infrastructure improvements, design improvements, speed reduction and better enforcement to ensure that people are safe in whatever way they get around,\u201d Murdock said. <\/p>\n

Saanich Police continue to ask that anyone who witnessed the July 28 collision, or who may have dashcam footage, to please contact their non-emergency number at 250-475-4321.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past four weeks, the lives of at least four cyclists and pedestrians have been lost in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[35965,49,48,35966,35967,635,35968,35969,35970,35971,35972,82,1062,35973],"class_list":["post-53316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-acting-assistant-director-of-transporation-and-engineering-city-of-victoria","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chek-news","tag-city-of-victoria","tag-cycling","tag-cyclists-and-pedestrians","tag-deadly-summer","tag-dean-murdock-mayor-of-saanich","tag-richard-adam","tag-saanich","tag-sports","tag-video","tag-vulnerable-road-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}