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Scary Motorbike Collision on Albert Street
posted (September 20, 2017)
There was a scary motorbike collision yesterday evening at the junction of Albert and King Streets. It happened at 5:10 pm, just as everyone was heading home from work in the downtown area.

As this security video from Mikado shows, a Ford Focus Sport is crossing from one side of King Street to the other, across Albert Street. The driver doesn't make a full stop, because all she can see coming is a slow moving car. So she starts to drive across the intersection, which is when this Kawasaki Motorbike whips out from behind the slow moving car, and jets into view. The driver of the car sees it racing to her, and not knowing what to do, she freezes and stops in the middle of the intersection. That's when the motorbike hits the car's front fender at high speed and the driver flies over the hood and lands on the street.

The ambulance was called to take the motorbike driver away. He is 22 year old Clayton Carcamo and he broke his right leg and fractured his left foot. 41 year old Leann Bardalez was driving the car. They have both been served with notices of intended prosecution.

We note that the dangers of this busy intersection have been prominent this year. In August we saw a pedestrian being run over by a car as he tried to cross.

And in April, a policeman on a motorbike ran into a car crossing the intersection - the same as what happened yesterday.

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