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Street set for safety upgrades after teen’s death Cornelia Naylor
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The route 14-year-old Muska Behzad took on her way home from Byrne Creek Community School
the day she was killed by a dump truck has gotten extra attention from the City of Burnaby and Burnaby RCMP for the new school year. Behzad was killed on
11th Avenue near 16th Street while walking home from school at about 3:30 p.m. on May 5. The dump truck involved in the crash was associated with Ledingham
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McAllister’s Southgate City project nearby. The accident happened on a stretch of 11th Avenue with no sidewalks but lots of truck traffic from three major construction
projects (the Rosemary Brown Arena, Southgate City and a MetroVancouver water main project) and a logistics company (18WheelsWarehousing & Trucking) nearby.
One neighbour told the NOW she had been hit by a truck mirror just six months earlier while walking in the same area Behzad was killed. Continued on page 3
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