In any serious incident, we also communicate with the RCMP during its investigation." This often involves our engineering staff to assess technical considerations at the site. "When a crash occurs on a provincial highway, ministry staff visit the site to conduct a thorough review of the location, including its condition, speed limit and nearby signs. “We take our commitment to safety on provincial roads and highways very seriously," the ministry said in a statement to CTV News. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says its thoughts are with all involved in this tragic incident, and that the site has been inspected. "It’s clearly an issue that needs to be addressed and fixed." “There’s a crosswalk right there, so even if there was someone crossing there, he would have not been able to stop," Muzyka says. It’s not known whether speed played a role in the crash, but Linklater’s family wants to know whether better signage designed for truckers or improvements at the crash location are needed.
She says Linklater will be remembered as a great father who was active in the community, participating in functions with his four children, including baseball and football. "And he put people to work all the time that needed work."
“One Thanksgiving, he bought 25 turkeys and gave them out," Muzyka says. She says he played a big part in every community that he worked in and was also very generous. He was very outdoorsy, never indoors,” she says. “He loved the outdoors, whether it was going into the mountains to fish at a lake, going for a hike with his kids and fishing in the ocean, prawning, crabbing, (he) just loved it. She says he was in the Comox Valley working on a roofing job around the time the crash occurred. Muzyka describes her brother as a very generous individual who was well-known up and down Vancouver Island, largely as the operator of a roofing company. Mosaic is co-operating with the investigation currently underway.” GENEROUS INDIVIDUAL This incident involved one of our contractors’ trucks on May 24. "We extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends affected by this tragic event. “Mosaic Forest Management is deeply saddened by this incident," the statement reads. The company supplied a statement to CTV News about the crash. The truck was owned by Klaus Posselt Logging, of Burns Lake, B.C., and was operating under a contract to Mosaic Forest Management. “My sister-in-law and my mother have been reaching out to RCMP and just anyone that can give them information, leaving messages with ICBC and they don’t get anything back,” she says. A second person in the pickup not related to Linklater survived the crash. As he was heading back to the driver’s side of his pickup, the logs came towards him. Muzyka believes her brother had stopped on the on-ramp so his dog could go to the washroom. "We feel lost and confused and devastated at the same time, so losing a person and not having any answers makes it even harder.” “I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life," says Muzyka. Summer Muzyka is the younger sister of Andrew Linklater, who was killed when a load of logs spilled off a truck rounding the corner where the Comox Valley Parkway connects to the Inland Island Highway on-ramp. The family of a 43-year-old man who died in a tragic crash involving a logging truck near Cumberland on May 24 is still struggling to find answers surrounding the man's death.