A series of miscommunications and faulty assumptions led to an RCMP constable not realizing she was speeding through the scene of a pedestrian collision on a darkened highway until it was too late, a fatality inquiry has found.
Tracy Janvier was hit by a car while walking on a highway south of Fort McMurray in the early-morning hours of Aug. 21, 2016. He was then struck by an RCMP pickup truck responding to the emergency.
Another man, James Cardinal, sustained a serious injury to his hand when he was clipped by the RCMP truck's mirror.Const. Michelle Phillips, who was driving the RCMP vehicle, was charged with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm. "I recommend that a formal process be developed for evaluating all deaths resulting from collisions with RCMP vehicles to determine whether any change or addition should be made to the existing curriculum for the Police Driving Unit portion of training at Depot Division," Cleary writes in the report.
Cleary recommends that 911 operators direct the citizens to position their vehicle across the driving lane with their hazards on. This would effectively erect a physical barrier across the highway and provide a warning to other vehicles of the collision's location, Cleary wrote.
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