A construction foreman was sentenced in B.C. Provincial Court to seven days in jail for assault with a weapon, after hitting a traffic control person with his truck on a New Westminster jobsite in 2010.
A construction foreman was sentenced in B.C. Provincial Court to seven days in jail for assault with a weapon, after hitting a traffic control person (TCP) with his truck on a New Westminster jobsite in 2010.
“The BC Flaggers Association is ecstatic and we think the judge has done a very good thing,” said Tammy Sampson, director of operations for BC Road Safe Inc.
“We believe the justice system has set precedence for drivers in the future to do as the Motor Vehicle Act says and obey the direction of a traffic control person. We are in place for the safety of our crews and that of the travelling public.”
Judge Thomas Woods sentenced Michael Paul Biemans to seven days in jail for assault with a weapon in B.C. Provincial Court on Mar. 29.
He also received one year of probation and was ordered to take a mandatory anger management course.
Biemans, 43, was found guilty of assault with a weapon for intentionally hitting TCP Paul Whyte with his truck at a construction site in New Westminster, B.C., on Nov. 8, 2010.
Whyte is an employee of B.C. Road Safe, who was hired by PW Trenchless Construction to stop traffic from entering the construction zone. Biemans is a foreman with Surrey-based contractor J Cote & Sons Excavating.
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