News Items tag as: Kiera-Leigh Carlson

10 years gone, but not forgotten: Family, friends remember Armstrong's Kiera-Leigh Carlson
April 28, 2020 - 7:30 PM

ARMSTRONG - Along with birthdays, anniversaries and other traditions, the Carlson family has another date that marks the passage of time: the day 22-year-old Kiera-Leigh was hit by a speeding car and killed
while walking to work.
HELSTON: Slow down and remember Kiera
May 01, 2015 - 8:35 AM
HELSTON: Behind the scenes with reporters and mourners
June 27, 2014 - 8:07 AM

When someone’s death impacts the community, reporters have an uncomfortable job to do.
Hit and run driver up for parole
July 09, 2013 - 1:31 PM

VERNON - The man found guilty of hitting a young woman with his car and fleeing the scene has applied for a parole hearing.
Hit and run driver given jail time
December 21, 2012 - 2:02 PM

Chase Donaldson was sentenced today to just over two and a half years in prison for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of the accident.
Donaldson guilty of dangerous driving causing death of Kiera Carlson
December 18, 2012 - 12:07 PM

Update: 1:00 p.m. Dec. 18
Remembering Kiera-Leigh Carlson
December 17, 2012 - 9:48 AM

When Kiera-Leigh Carlson headed out her front door around 8 p.m. April 30, 2010, she would have walked right past the van her parents had given her.

She couldn't drive it yet; she was 22-years-old but didn't have her drivers licence. Three more lessons and the van was hers.

Instead she had to walk again on her usual five-kilometre route to work at Boomers Night Club, a task she enjoyed and often made by choice. But she never made it to work that night.
Final arguments made in hit and run trial
December 11, 2012 - 1:00 PM

The Crown in a dangerous driving causing death case in Vernon Supreme Court has made its point very clear: the accused is lying.
Hit and run trial back on
December 10, 2012 - 2:02 PM

Update: 5:00 p.m. Dec. 10
Questions remain in Coldstream hit and run trial
November 30, 2012 - 12:40 PM

By Charlotte Helston and Marshall Jones
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News Items tag as: Kiera-Leigh Carlson

10 years gone, but not forgotten: Family, friends remember Armstrong's Kiera-Leigh Carlson

HELSTON: Slow down and remember Kiera

HELSTON: Behind the scenes with reporters and mourners

Hit and run driver up for parole

Hit and run driver given jail time

Donaldson guilty of dangerous driving causing death of Kiera Carlson

Remembering Kiera-Leigh Carlson

Final arguments made in hit and run trial

Hit and run trial back on

Questions remain in Coldstream hit and run trial

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