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NWPD investigate fatal motor vehicle incident at worksite

New Westminster – The New Westminster Police Department are in the early stages of investigating a fatal motor vehicle incident at a worksite in Queensborough. On April 6th 2018 at approximately 8:30am officers were called to an industrial yard on Ewen Avenue for an unresponsive person, who had been fatally injured from a semi-truck.

Investigators from the NWPD Criminal Investigations Section, and the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Team, along with the BC Coroner’s Serve and Work Safe BC, are investigating.

“This is a tragic event and our thoughts are with the family of this individual,” stated Media Relations Officer Sergeant Jeff Scott. “We have a large team of investigators working together to determine how this happened, but we are still in the early stages at this point.”

Anyone with information is asked to call the New Westminster Police Major Crime Unit at 604-525-5411.

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