The Splatsín First Nation is calling for traffic lights on a busy southern Interior highway where one of their members was killed by a car last weekend.
Harry Joseph Jones, Jr., 62, died after being struck by a vehicle while trying to cross Highway 97A on a marked crosswalk in the community about 25 kilometres south of Salmon Arm, in B.C.’s North Okanagan-Shuswap region.
Julie Litt, who is a receptionist at Splatsín band office, said the community is “absolutely devastated” by Jones’ death.
“He was just a gem of the community, and it’s just a real gut punch,” she told CBC News. Litt described Jones as “such a free spirit” and a devoted karaoke enthusiast
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