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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Alberta?s ombudsman will not investigate the issue of monitoring motorists with poorly-controlled diabetes, said the woman who requested the probe.
Josie Bellemare, whose brother was struck and killed by a driver in diabetic shock, wanted Alberta to examine the issue after Ontario?s ombudsman launched an investigation into how that province monitored diabetic drivers.However, Bellemare said she received a call from an official in the Alberta ombudsman?s office Friday informing her the independent watchdog agency will not be doing the same here.
?She basically said the Alberta ombudsman looked into it and he?s not convinced there?s a systemic issue happening in Alberta,? Bellemare said from her home in Ottawa.
Her brother, Jason Lapierre, was an avid triathlete and popular ski coach who was killed in July 2006 when a car crossed the centre line and hit him as he cycled on Highway 1A near Cochrane.
The driver was a 49-year-old diabetic man who was hypoglycemic ? driving with a blood sugar level so low he was close to lapsing into a coma and late had no recollection of hitting Lapierre.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/heal...onitoring diabetic drivers/6608460/story.html
Josie Bellemare, whose brother was struck and killed by a driver in diabetic shock, wanted Alberta to examine the issue after Ontario?s ombudsman launched an investigation into how that province monitored diabetic drivers.However, Bellemare said she received a call from an official in the Alberta ombudsman?s office Friday informing her the independent watchdog agency will not be doing the same here.
?She basically said the Alberta ombudsman looked into it and he?s not convinced there?s a systemic issue happening in Alberta,? Bellemare said from her home in Ottawa.
Her brother, Jason Lapierre, was an avid triathlete and popular ski coach who was killed in July 2006 when a car crossed the centre line and hit him as he cycled on Highway 1A near Cochrane.
The driver was a 49-year-old diabetic man who was hypoglycemic ? driving with a blood sugar level so low he was close to lapsing into a coma and late had no recollection of hitting Lapierre.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/heal...onitoring diabetic drivers/6608460/story.html