Ledingham McAllister and Marcon Construction say they handed over video surveillance footage from their construction site, filming the incident that killed a 14-year-old girl who was returning from school on Thursday.
The security video from a construction site in Burnaby near the site where a 14-year-old girl was killed by a dump truck last Thursday was handed over to police as evidence, according to the developer and main contractor working on the site.
An 8th-grader at the Bern Creek Community School was hit and killed by a truck last Thursday at about 3:20 p.m. as she was returning from a school on 11th Avenue near 16th Street.
NOW confirmed that the participating dump truck is connected to the nearby construction project in Southgate City.
Ledingham McAllister and Marcon Construction issued a statement Monday afternoon saying the CCTV video they handed over to police showed “a neighborhood dog running out of its yard and startling the victim, who then tragically ran out on the road.”
The companies suspect that the girl was running between the dump truck and its trailer and the driver would not see her.
NOW confirmed that the video came from a construction site in Southgate City and was handed over to police the same day after the fatal crash.
Later on Friday afternoon, however, Burnaby’s RCMP said it was unable to confirm that a dog had played a role in the crash.
Ledingham McAllister and Marcon Construction met with city officials on Monday morning and agreed to change the project’s traffic management plan, according to a statement sent by the companies.
They say they will close part of 11th Avenue at the exit of their construction site, which means trucks will now be heading west on 11th Avenue instead of east.
“Going west, they will go from 11th Ave to 18th Street, then from 18th St to 10th Ave,” the statement said.
The companies will also widen the existing sidewalk, using asphalt on part of the south side of 11th Avenue, from 17th Street to 18th Street.
“We take this responsibility from the city of Burnaby because our contractors are already in place and can get the job done quickly,” the statement said.
Neighbors were outraged after the fatal crash, telling the media that the city had not done enough to protect them from truck traffic in the area.
Local resident Elise Fritt told NOW that she was hit by a rear-view mirror on a truck last November while walking down 11th Avenue, near where the 14-year-old girl was killed.
NOW turned to the city with questions about the traffic management plan and is waiting to receive an answer.
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