Vehicle and safety enforcement officer killed in collision

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A commercial vehicle and safety enforcement officer with B.C.’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (BMTI) has died following a vehicle collision on Highway 5 near Valemount on Feb. 1. Toni Kristinsson, 40, was driving home at the end of his shift when his patrol vehicle collided with a commercial transport truck, the BMTI said in a statement. Kristinsson had worked for the ministry’s commercial vehicle and safety enforcement branch for a little more than three years and spent a majority of his time working in Robson Valley out of the Tete Jaune Inspection Station. The RCMP investigation into the incident is ongoing.

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