It's been a month North District RCMP Insp. Eric Brewer would sooner forget.
As of Dec. 14, when three people died in a collision on Highway 16 West near the turnoff to Jutland and Jensen Roads near East Beaverly and one person died on Highway 2 south of Dawson Creek, there have been a dozen driving-related deaths in the region so far this month.
They've occurred throughout the district, which covers the upper two-thirds of the province.
"Some in the Peace, we've had some down in the Cariboo and out west, they've been all over," said Brewer, who is in charge of the district's traffic units. "It hasn't been any one place in particular."
The rash of fatalities has means the year-to-date total will likely exceed 60 and be above last year's all-time low of 58. That's still an improvement over a peak of 98 experienced in 2002 but left Brewer disappointed given all the work dedicated to promoting safer driving since then.
