BC's logging roads aren't what they matically for mining and oil-and-gas development. Very crowded, and called "resource roads" now, they help make log hauling one of the most dangerous occupations in our timber harvesting sector.

A case in point is Joseph Leroux. He died one spring evening on the Finlay-Philip Forest Service Road, 190 km north of Prince George. The 52-yearold's loaded logging truck unexpectedly met another empty one at a corner, and went over an embankment.

The case was unusual not because of the circumstances, but because it led to a highly publicized coroner's inquest in 2007, believed to be the first into a logging truck fatality in northern BC. The coroner's jury ...

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