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VOCM Late Day Update August 26 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Brian Medore. One person suffered serious injuries the result
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  Speaker 1: of a crash involving a side-by-side in Clareville. The accident
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  Speaker 1: happened on Memorial Drive just before midnight Saturday. The driver
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  Speaker 1: was taken to hospital with what RCMP are calling life-altering injuries.
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  Speaker 1: The damaged side-by-side was seized as part of the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Police are now seeking witnesses or any possible surveillance footage
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  Speaker 1: in the time leading up to the crash. A driver
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  Speaker 1: in a pickup truck must have thought he was doing
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  Speaker 1: a stunt out of the Dukes of Hazzard when he
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  Speaker 1: bypassed a construction site on the West Coast using the
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  Speaker 1: ditch as a brush-filled makeshift roadway. The incident happened just
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  Speaker 1: before 11 o'clock Sunday morning on the TCH near Route
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  Speaker 1: 60 at the Stephenville exit. The Department of Transportation and
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  Speaker 1: Infrastructure set up a marked construction zone to slow traffic
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  Speaker 1: as crews worked on the shoulder of the highway. The
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  Speaker 1: red pickup truck, likely a Ford F-150, went through the
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  Speaker 1: ditch at a high rate of speed to pass the
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  Speaker 1: parked vehicle, re-entering the highway a few seconds later. Crews
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  Speaker 1: working at the scene also note that the truck knocked
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  Speaker 1: over a road sign. A dashboard camera on a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: parked on the shoulder captured the risky maneuver. Anyone who
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  Speaker 1: has information or saw a red pickup driving in a
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  Speaker 1: reckless or dangerous manner on the highway that morning asked
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  Speaker 1: to contact Bay St. George RCMP. A well-known performer has
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  Speaker 1: passed away. Here's VOCM's Zach Power.
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  Speaker 2: Tim Curry, the British actor famous for his role as Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Frankenfurter in the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show, died
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  Speaker 2: yesterday at the age of 80. Curry started his career
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  Speaker 2: in London's West End in hair and went on to
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  Speaker 2: perform in musicals including Pirates of Byzance and Spamalot. but
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  Speaker 2: his role as a transvestite mad scientist with a posh
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  Speaker 2: accent was one that brought him to superstardom. Curry is
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  Speaker 2: also known for his performance as Pennywise the Clown in
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  Speaker 2: Stephen King's television series It, and for Home Alone 2
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  Speaker 2: among a long list of notable starring and supporting roles.
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  Speaker 2: He earned three Tony Awards over his career, including Best
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  Speaker 2: Actor in the play Amadeus, and two separate Best Actor
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  Speaker 2: in a Musical awards, for My Favorite Year in 1993
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  Speaker 2: and Spamalot in 2005.
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  Speaker 1: Premier Vontario says the industrial carbon tax is killing industrial
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  Speaker 1: development and has to go. Doug Ford made the comments
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  Speaker 1: during a housing announcement in Vaughan today. Ford says in
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  Speaker 1: light of Canada's efforts to respond to the trade war
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  Speaker 1: with the United States, it's time to abandon ideology and
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  Speaker 1: create the climate and conditions to attract more investment.
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  Speaker 3: We need to help our businesses compete and close the
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  Speaker 3: gap created by these new tariffs. That means eliminating federal
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  Speaker 3: greenhouse gas emission standards.
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  Speaker 1: That's your newscast. I'm Brian Medour.