Police say weather, speed and alcohol may have been factors in a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a man in his late 20s in Burnaby early Friday morning.
Emergency crews were called to Lougheed Highway just east of Lake City Way shortly after 1 a.m.
They found a pickup truck off the road and on its side with three males trapped inside, according to assistant fire Chief Barry Mawhinney
Firefighters cut out the windshield to free the two passengers, Mawhinney said.
They were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
The driver, however, died at the scene.
Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis noted there were several traffic fatalities in the Lower Mainland all at about the same time, during the first storm of the late summer.
