The provincial government has announced $5 million to go towards initiatives to prevent moose-vehicle accidents.
Of that money, $1 million will be used to put up fencing along a section of highway near Salmonier Line. It will include two kilometers heading westbound, and four kilometers heading east. A tender for the fencing has been issued, and construction is expected to start later this year.
The other $4 million will be used for brush cutting.
Tara Chafe is the secretary for the Save Our People Action Committee. Her mother was an advocate who suffered serious injuries after she hit a moose on the Goulds Bypass.
Chafe says her mother’s car flipped three times and landed on its roof. She says he mother’s seatbelt was choking her, but she was able to get free and crawl out of the vehicle, preventing paralysis.
Chafe says her mother would be proud of the announcement.
She believes her mother would be “speechless.”