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Jun 13, 2025 5:35 PM - Connect Newsroom

Surrey man faces 15 charges after BC Highway Patrol investigation into fatal crash

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On February 18, 2024, at 3:00 a.m., a minivan and a Tesla collided on the side of Highway 1 near the Sprott Street exit in Burnaby, BC.

After just over a year of investigation by the BC Highway Patrol, a Surrey man has been formally charged. He faces 15 counts in a collision that killed two people and injured three others.

On February 18, 2024, at 3:00 a.m., a minivan and a Tesla collided on the side of Highway 1 near the Sprott Street exit in Burnaby, BC. A 20-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman, both from Maple Ridge, were killed in the collision. Two other Maple Ridge women in their twenties were seriously injured, as was a Surrey man in his thirties.

On June 9, 2025, the BC Prosecution Service charged Chi Sun Park, 35, with 15 counts, including:

  • two counts of driving a means of transport in a dangerous manner causing death, under subsection 320.13(3) of the Criminal Code;
  • three counts of operating a means of transport in a dangerous manner causing bodily harm, under section 320.13(2) of the Criminal Code;
  • two counts of driving a conveyance while impaired causing death, under subsection 320.14(3) of the Criminal Code);
  • three counts of driving a means of transport while impaired causing bodily harm, under section 320.14(2) of the Criminal Code;
  • two counts of driving a conveyance with a blood drug concentration that exceeded the blood methamphetamine concentration greater than that established by regulation causing death, under section 320.14(3) of the Criminal Code.
  • three counts of driving a conveyance with a blood drug concentration that exceeded the blood methamphetamine concentration greater than that established by regulation causing bodily harm, under section 320.14(2) of the Criminal Code.

Park's next court date is July 24, 2025, in Vancouver Provincial Court.

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