A skateboarder is dead after he collided with a semi-truck in Queensborough on Friday.
The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. at Boyd Street near Wood Street.
Early information collected by investigators indicates the skateboarder smashed into the semi-truck as it was travelling eastbound on Boyd Street, said New Westminster Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Jeff Scott.
“Just as it (the semi-truck) started to go underneath the Queensborough Bridge, there’s a pedestrian pathway that comes down off the bridge and then into a crosswalk, and the initial information, the initial evidence that we’ve seen, is that it looks like the skateboarder might have run into the side of the semi-truck trailer,” Scott told the Record, adding there wasn’t any evidence to suggest the semi-truck hit the skate boarder from the front of the vehicle.
All this information will need to be confirmed by the collision investigation team, Scott said.
Police had the area closed for several hours on Friday to investigate.
“It is a tragic set of circumstances,” Scott said.
