{"id":6830,"date":"2026-08-06T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/news\/7802840\/truck-driver-charged-in-fatal-crash-near-quesnel-bc-that-killed-motorcyclist\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:24:10","slug":"truck-driver-charged-in-fatal-crash-near-quesnel-bc-that-killed-motorcyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6830\/truck-driver-charged-in-fatal-crash-near-quesnel-bc-that-killed-motorcyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver charged in fatal crash near Quesnel, B.C., that killed motorcyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUESNEL \u2014 Police in British Columbia say a tractor-trailer driver has been charged with impaired driving causing death in a crash involving a motorcyclist last year. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened July 24, 2025, on Highway 97 near Quesnel, in the Cariboo region. <\/p>\n<p>Police say a Kenworth tractor-trailer collided with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, killing the 42-year-old man on the motorbike who was from Chemainus, on Vancouver Island. <\/p>\n<p>The BC Prosecution Service approved multiple charges against the truck driver after a yearlong police investigation. <\/p>\n<p>The truck&#8217;s operator faces one count each of dangerous driving causing death, impaired driving causing death and driving with a blood-alcohol content over the legal limit. <\/p>\n<p>The driver is set to appear in Quesnel Provincial Court on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESNEL \u2014 Police in British Columbia say a tractor-trailer driver has been charged with impaired driving causing death in a crash involving a motorcyclist last year. The crash happened July 24, 2025, on Highway 97 near Quesnel, in the Cariboo region. Police say a Kenworth tractor-trailer collided with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, killing the 42-year-old man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"d4aeb007-5106-4158-8608-ade2058e1670","_duplicate_post":false,"rank_math_canonical_url":"","source":"The Canadian Press","byline":"","published":"2026-08-06 10:24:10","updated":"2026-08-06 10:24:10","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1275,1276,493],"tags":[],"region":[1279,1280,206,207,208,1284,209],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc","category-disaster","category-topnews","region-british-columbia","region-canada","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vancouver","region-vernon"],"post_modified":"2026-08-06T10:24:10","post_modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:24:10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-919341885f8cc32aa5132fe9ba5220db07d1783ac12eee2c3ea8b22076e9b910.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}