Impaired driving charges laid in 2018 crash in Delta that killed teen
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:08:12 +0000
Charges have been laid against a Burnaby man following a crash more than a year ago that killed one young woman and injured another.
An RCMP release says 44-year-old Chao Chen faces two charges, including impaired driving causing death, related to the June 2, 2018, collision that killed 19-year-old Olivia Malcom.
Charges were laid on Aug. 16 and Chen appeared in court and was released on several conditions, including an order to return to provincial court in Surrey on Sept. 24.
Malcom and her 20-year-old friend were standing behind their vehicle which was parked off the shoulder of Hwy. 17A in Delta last June when they were hit from behind by a Jeep.
Malcom died at the scene.
She was remembered as a prominent member of the local lacrosse community and an online funding campaign in the months after her death raised more than $100,000 for a bursary to support post-secondary education.