Police want to talk to van driver
By Jennifer Saltman - Staff Reporter

Police are looking to speak to the driver of a van that hit a four-year-old girl in Coquitlam last Thursday evening.

Around 6 p.m. that day Coquitlam RCMP and paramedics were called to Lincoln Avenue and Ponderosa Street after the girl was hit while crossing the street with her father in a marked crosswalk.

The four-year-old Anmore resident sustained minor injuries.

Police say the driver stopped, but didn't exchange information with the victim's father or police.

Coquitlam RCMP Const. Dave Babineau said police would like to speak to the man, as well as anyone who may have seen the collision.

Babineau said the man didn't do anything drastically wrong. He said the man should have stayed behind or exchanged information, but instead drove off, likely not thinking he'd done anything wrong.

"For us to complete our investigation properly, we really have to speak to this person," Babineau said.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call Const. Karine Grenon at 604-945-1550.

published on 11/01/2006