A man has pled guilty to dangerous driving causing death in a crash that killed two UBC students in 2021.
In the early morning of September 26, 2021, Evan Smith and Emily Selwood were struck and killed by a car while walking along the sidewalk of NW Marine Drive behind c̓əsnaʔəm house in the Totem Park Residence area.
Following a year-long investigation into the crash, Tim Carl Robert Goerner was charged by the University RCMP on two counts each of impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving.
He pled guilty last week to two counts of dangerous driving causing death, according to an email sent to The Ubyssey by the BC Prosecution Service.
Since 2021, the RCMP and BC Ministry of Transportation have implemented safety improvements to the stretch of NW Marine Drive where the accident took place, including a permanent speed-reader, upgraded streetlights and roadside delineators. But, some community members have called for more.
Students also erected a memorial for Smith and Selwood immediately after the 2021 crash.
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for November 6.