New Westminster – The New Westminster Police are in the early stages of fatal motor vehicle incident investigation in the 700 block of Princess Street. On December 10th at approximately 1:45 pm patrol officers were called to the 700 block of Princess Street for an unresponsive pedestrian that had been struck by a driver. The driver remained at the scene.
Investigators from the Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service attended the scene, as well as New Westminster Police Department Major Crime Unit.
“This is a tragic event and our thoughts are with the family of this individual,” stated Sergeant Andrew Leaver. “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.”
If anyone has relevant information, they are asked to please contact the Major Crime Unit at 604-529-2430 or email to mcucrimetips@nwpolice.org.
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CONTACT PERSON: Sergeant Andrew Leaver
EMAIL: communications@nwpolice.org
FILE: 23-20662