A cyclist was hit at the intersection of 10th Avenue and Dunbar Street early Thursday morning, April 10, 2025. Port Alberni Fire Department reported around 7 a.m. that they were at a scene involving a cyclist and a vehicle.
Paramedics with BC Emergency Health Services (EHS) received a call at 6:17 a.m. regarding the motor vehicle incident. One ground ambulance with primary care paramedics responded and transported a patient to West Coast General Hospital to meet an air ambulance, BC EHS spokesperson Bowen Osoko said.
"Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to one patient in critical condition, who was transported onto further care via air ambulance," Osoko said.
The RCMP's Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service team was on scene throughout the morning, and the area was blocked off. Traffic began moving again around lunchtime.
A cyclist was hit and killed at the same intersection in November 2018. A white "ghost bike" is affixed to a post at the intersection to remember Daniel Butt. There is a second ghost bike affixed to a pole at the intersection of 10th Avenue and Redford Street, where Nikita Hedingham died in 2017.
The ghost or riderless bikes were placed by Cycle Alberni as memorials; they are part of a program that began in 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri. There are ghost bikes in more than 210 locations around the world.
