B.C. motorist’s dashcam captures brewery van running red light

A Vancouver motorist is speaking retired to definitive his daze and vexation astatine seeing a company’s van tally a reddish light.

Mehdi Rabbani was driving connected Fell Avenue, astatine nan intersection of West 1st Avenue, connected July 27 erstwhile his reddish ray turned to green.

As postulation started moving guardant and nan cross-traffic stopped, a van from nan House of Funk Brewing Co. could beryllium seen driving into nan intersection successful beforehand of nan traffic.

Rabbani said he quickly deed nan brake and that is what saved him from being successful a worse situation.

“I was really shaken aft this,” he said.

Owner of House of Funk Brewing, Darren Hollett, told Global News successful a matter connection that nan driver had dropped their h2o vessel beneath their feet arsenic they came up to nan ray truthful they didn’t spot nan light.

“They were highly apologetic,” Hollett said successful nan message.

Rabbani said he was disappointed successful North Vancouver’s RCMP consequence erstwhile he went home, downloaded nan footage and past drove to nan station.

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“I was hoping to manus it complete because erstwhile I watch news programs, ever constabulary asking people, ‘We request your help, we request your dashcam video,'” he said.

“Then I spell location pinch my dashcam video they said, ‘No, please capable retired this shape successful 2 pages pinch each nan details.'”

Rabbani said nan RCMP would not return his USB and told him to spell location and personification would telephone him.

North Vancouver RCMP confirmed connected Monday that constabulary were informed of nan incident connected July 27.

The title was past forwarded to nan Traffic Services Unit commandant to travel up but arsenic they do not activity connected weekends, they person not yet had nan chance to analyse nan complaint.

RCMP said an serviceman from nan postulation portion will travel up pinch Rabbani.