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Weekend motorcycle crash under investigation

Pender Harbour
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Paramedics load a patient into an air ambulance after an accident in Pender Harbour on Sunday, June 17.

Sunshine Coast RCMP are continuing their investigation of a serious highway accident in Pender Harbour on Sunday, June 17.

According to police, a pair of motorcycles was headed south on Highway 101 near Narrows Road when one of the bikes collided head-on with a northbound vehicle around 2:30 p.m. The second bike was also caught up in the collision.

Amelia Foster, a former paramedic who runs Sunshine First Aid, was at the Grasshopper Pub, which is around 100 metres from the crash site, when the accident happened.
She told Coast Reporter that as she was leaving the pub she saw a man run into the middle of the road to stop traffic. “He said there was a car in the ditch and a motorcycle down.” Foster took the first aid pack she had with her and rushed to the scene. One of the motorcyclists was lying in the ditch unresponsive. “A lady from the SUV was at the side [of the road] and the other guy from the motorbike was walking around,” she said.

Sgt. Don Newman of Sunshine Coast RCMP said the rider whose bike collided with the vehicle was airlifted to Vancouver. Newman said his injuries were not fatal and the other motorcyclist’s injuries and those suffered by the two local women in the vehicle were minor.

Newman said the motorcyclists were both from off-Coast, and the investigation is still in the early stages, so RCMP can’t comment on what led to the collision, but they are looking at speed as a factor.