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British Columbia residents may be interested in some information on the subject of brain injuries. Due to the personal and financial costs associated with the injuries, they can have serious effects on a person’s life.

A British Columbia woman will be receiving more than $3 million from her husband’s insurance company as the result of injuries she received in 2008 when her husband crashed their vehicle into a moose. The couple and their two children were travelling north on Highway 37 when a moose entered the road from the opposite side, crossed over the oncoming lane and entered the lane occupied by the family’s vehicle.

A 30-year-old man who struck and killed a pedestrian was fined $2,000 and banned from driving for five years by a British Columbia court on Aug. 12. The man, an Alberta resident originally from Kelowna, had entered a plea of guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention, and the mother of the female pedestrian killed by the man’s modified SUV was not happy with the sentence.

British Columbia authorities say that alcohol and speed could have been factors in a fatal accident on the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver. The rear-end collision happened about 4 a.m. on July 31, forcing police to close the southbound lanes for several hours during their investigation.

A British Columbia cyclist was injured in an alleged hit-and-run car accident on July 30. According to the report, the 55-year-old man was travelling on Kingsway Avenue near Pitt Meadows just before midnight when he was struck by a large passenger vehicle that was thought to be either a truck or a SUV.

According to police, an 88-year-old woman died after being struck by an out-of-control vehicle while walking in Saanich on July 20. Before the accident, the victim had been walking near the intersection of Hillcrest and Tyndall avenues.

According to the RCMP, two Nanaimo, British Columbia, residents died in a crash involving a gravel truck in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, which is south of Edmonton. The car accident happened at the intersection of 47th Street and Highway 13 on July 8.

A report that was released on July 3 regarding a fatal car accident that occurred in 2012 in British Columbia stated that bad tires played a part in causing the crash. Three individuals from Nanaimo, aged 16, 19 and 30, did not survive the incident.

Data from British Columbia and across Canada shows that men are more frequently the victims of fatalities in vehicular accidents than women by a ratio of nearly five to one. Safety advocates think they might need to focus informational campaigns at younger males in order to reduce the death toll.

A three-vehicle crash involving a commercial truck and two other vehicles took the life of an elderly woman riding on a power-operated mobility scooter on June 24 in Port Moody, according to the Port Moody police inspector. The accident occurred around 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Ioco Road and Ungless Way.