{"id":16736,"date":"2010-07-10T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2010-07-11T18:31:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T01:31:40","slug":"glenna-evans-dies-on-mount-seymour-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16736","title":{"rendered":"Glenna Evans Dies On Mount Seymour Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/glenna-Evans.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/glenna-Evans.jpg','popup','width=220,height=165,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/glenna-Evans-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Glenna-Evans\" \/><\/a><strong>Glenna Evans<\/strong>, 27, an artist and competitive downhill skateboarder died Friday, July 9, 2010 one day before her 28th birthday after colliding with a van on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=anne+Macdonald+Way+and+Mount+Seymour+Road,+Vancouver,+BC&amp;sll=49.333792,-122.962933&amp;sspn=0.033615,0.063772&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Mt+Seymour+Rd+%26+Anne+Macdonald+Way,+NORTH+VANCOUVER,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia+V7H+1G5,+Canada&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Seymour Road<\/a><\/strong> in North Vancouer, according to a stories on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelowna.com\/2010\/07\/09\/b-c-skateboarder-dies-in-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelowna.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverite.com\/2010\/07\/10\/skateboarder-artist-glenna-evans-died-just-one-day-before-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouverite<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Evans] was using a longboard, a skateboard more than one metre long, when she failed to complete a turn on to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=anne+Macdonald+Way+and+Mount+Seymour+Road,+Vancouver,+BC&amp;sll=49.333792,-122.962933&amp;sspn=0.033615,0.063772&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Mt+Seymour+Rd+%26+Anne+Macdonald+Way,+NORTH+VANCOUVER,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia+V7H+1G5,+Canada&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Anne MacDonald Way<\/a><\/strong> and collided with a van at about 11 a.m. PT, said RCMP Cpl. Peter DeVries. . . The woman was wearing a helmet, DeVries said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evans family issued a statement through the RCMP, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverite.com\/2010\/07\/10\/skateboarder-artist-glenna-evans-died-just-one-day-before-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouverite<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGlenna Evans was an Honours student at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecuad.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Carr University<\/a><\/strong>. She had finished her third year in the Fine Arts Program and was to begin completion of a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree this fall. She earned awards at University and in High School in Victoria,\u201d her family said. . . . \u201cGlenna was a serious longboard skate competitor for several years and has placed well in international competition in the US and Canada. She was practicing in full racing gear at Mount Seymour.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Evans&#8217; family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelowna.com\/2010\/07\/09\/b-c-skateboarder-dies-in-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelowna.com<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverite.com\/2010\/07\/10\/skateboarder-artist-glenna-evans-died-just-one-day-before-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouverite<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenna Evans, 27, an artist and competitive downhill skateboarder died Friday, July 9, 2010 one day before her 28th birthday after colliding with a van on Mount Seymour Road in North Vancouer, according to a stories on Kelowna.com and Vancouverite. [Evans] was using a longboard, a skateboard more than one metre long, when she failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}