One dead, 7 harmed in automobile pile-up during Victoria airport

VICTORIA — An out-of-control automobile jumped curbs, crushed by a cruise list full of cab drivers and plowed into a confidence building Friday during Victoria International Airport — murdering one chairman and injuring 7 others, including a motorist of a car.

Seven cab drivers and a womanlike motorist of a white sedan were harmed in a weird crash.

The careless automobile sped in a true line from a airport’s brief tenure parking lot, jumped a curb, crossed a depot entrance road, jumped another quell onto a lifted berm and crushed by a wood-and-concrete cruise list full of Yellow Cab drivers.

The automobile clipped a luggage-cart mount and shot by a airport’s staff parking lot exit before using into a dilemma of a confidence building, pronounced Geoff Dickson, boss of a Victoria Airport Authority. RCMP reliable that report.

The victims and a motorist were taken by ambulance to hospitals via a collateral region, where one died on a approach to a handling room. Two others were in critical condition, Sidney RCMP Cpl. Chris Swain pronounced Friday.

The womanlike motorist had non-life-threatening injuries, RCMP said.

RCMP could not criticism on a state of a motorist or a automobile before a crash: “This is a critical occurrence and all will be investigated,” pronounced Swain.

“This happened in extended illumination during an general airfield so there’s a lot of witnesses,” Swain said. “That partial of a review will be lengthy.”

How a pile-up could occur “is what we’re all perplexing to square together,” Dickson said.

Sushil Hira of Yellow Cab of Victoria was with a victims’ families during a sanatorium Friday.

The speed extent where cars enter a airfield skill is about 20 km/h, Hira said. “It seems like this lady was simply over 100 km/h.”

Hira pronounced a confidence building is 30 to 40 metres from a cruise tables that are to a easterly of a airfield building and brief tenure parking on a “high median.”

“That’s when a automobile stopped after attack all of them, flipping over them and going over to a confidence building,” Hira said.

Mohan Kang, boss of a B.C. Taxi Association, worked as a cabbie during Victoria’s airfield for years. He pronounced he can’t know how a pile-up occurred.

“I’m shocked,” Kang said. “I see no reason how a collision could happen, how a automobile could go adult to that aloft space — even if we speed like hell, that we can’t do there.

“I simply can’t imagine, I’ve been introspective that thing though we can’t suppose how it could happen,” Kang said.

“A integrate guys are really critical — we don’t know if they’ll make it,” pronounced Surjit Gill.

The cruise list that was broken by a exile automobile “is a list for us to lay down,” Gill said.

“We speak and splash coffee.

“Some guys play cards and infrequently lay and talk.”

The cruise tables, done of timber slabs and concrete, had only been put in place recently, he said. “They were strongly built and everything,” Gill said.

The occurrence did not miscarry airfield business.

ceharnett@timescolonist.com