Truck modifications contributed to pedestrian’s death, Nanaimo RCMP says

A Nanaimo, B.C., pistillate has been charged with unsafe cognition causing decease pursuing an incidental connected March 21, 2024.

Nanaimo RCMP said 24-year-old Jazmin Patenaude was driving successful her motortruck successful the parking batch of Woodgrove Mall, erstwhile she deed and killed an 85-year-old woman.

The pistillate had parked her conveyance beside Patenaude’s truck, exited her car, and began walking toward the mall. At the aforesaid time, constabulary said Patenaude exited her parking stall, turned left, and struck the woman, knocking her to the ground.

Patenaude’s truck, which had been modified, constabulary said, contributed to the woman’s death.

Police said the modifications included suspension lifts, oversized tires and tinted windows, and made driving successful a crowded parking batch astatine a engaged promenade unsafe.

These modification were not portion of the archetypal plan of the truck.

“The complaint of unsafe cognition causing decease is simply a superior one,” Nanaimo RCMP said successful a statement.

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“It signifies that the idiosyncratic operating a vehicle, considering each the circumstances, poses a important information to the public.”