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A Calgary gas retailer wants the arena to accept "pay afore pump" legislation afterwards one of its advisers was afflicted in a hit and run Sunday morning.
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Calgary badge say a Centex agent was block bottomward the disciplinarian of a Ford Super Duty truck who didn't pay for gas back she was addled in the parking lot of a Home Depot abreast 16th Avenue and 17th Street N.W.
"A 35-year-old changeable agent of the gas base tracked bottomward the Ford in the parking lot and attempted to anticipate it from active abroad by continuing in advanced it," said police. "The Ford addled the woman as it exited the parking lot and agitated her on the awning for about 15 metres."
The woman fell off into the average westbound lane of the 1800 block of 16th Avenue afore the barter ran over her. She is currently in austere action at the Foothills hospital.
Police say the barter was baseborn in Airdrie and may have hit two added gas stations this week. They are looking for two macho suspects and a amber or maroon truck with Alberta licence bowl EUX 378.
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Centex says arena needs legislation to assure gas base associates afterward a hit and run in northwest Calgary. (CBC)
Centex Petroleum issued a account today saying, "We are devastated by the violent, absurd and ultimately afraid act perpetrated on our agent aboriginal Sunday morning. First and foremost our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and her family. We adjure her action improves and she is able to recover."
President Alnoor Bhura says gas thefts action every day in Alberta and the company's action is for advisers to alarm badge instead of putting themselves at risk.
"The Government of Alberta has apparent actual little or no administration in this amount in the past, alike admitting they accept been brash by assorted chiefs of badge to accept 'pay afore pump' legislation. We achievement the new government reconsiders this affair and brings advanced some abundant bare legislation and leadership," said Bhura.
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Occupational Health and Assurance (OHS) is investigating the incident.
Barrie Harrison with OHS says new legislation is not a antecedence appropriate now.
"Any gas base or gas aggregation is chargeless to apparatus a arrangement that requires advantageous for ammunition above-mentioned to the pump actuality operational," he said. "They don't crave a law to acquaint them to do that."
The B.C. government alien agnate legislation afterwards a adolescent man died during a gas-and-dash in Maple Ridge in 2005. Doug De Patie, whose son Grant was killed, lobbied governments beyond the country to apparatus Grant's Law.
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"I accept that all workers beyond Canada deserve the aforementioned assurance precautions as we do in B.C. and it's a simple adjustment — pay afore you pump — that would accept alone that abomination afore it alike happened," said De Patie.
De Patie contacted the appointment of Alberta's labour abbot today.
Calgary badge additionally abutment the abstraction of pre-pay at the pump legislation.
"Because it's not about dollars and cents, it's about lives and safety," Insp. Ken Thrower said.
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