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Egg truck crashes into Galey Farms market building

No one was injured in the crash just after 9 a.m. Wednesday, which also brought power lines down across the roadway.

Galey Farms’ market building sustained “extensive” damage Wednesday morning when a commercial truck hit power poles on Blenkinsop Road and veered onto the property, owner Rob Galey said.

No one was injured in the crash just after 9 a.m., which sheared off two utility poles and brought power lines down across the roadway.

Galey said the market was open and staff members were inside at the time of the crash, but were able to get out of the way.

The employees, who were shaken by the crash, were given the day off after the incident, he said.

The truck, an 18-wheeler from Golden Valley Eggs, was still inside the building at midday Wednesday, he said, adding the front of the building was demolished.

“The place is deemed unsafe, the whole structure.”

The commercial truck was removed from the site around 3 p.m., and another Golden Valley Eggs truck came by to pick up the trailer about an hour later. Parts of the crashed truck remained littered near the market building, which was being fenced up by workers on Wednesday afternoon.

An on-site worker told the Times Colonist that a five-ton truck was on site around 1 p.m. to remove the contents of the trailer, which had a refrigeration unit attached to it.

Engineers were set to arrive Thursday morning to make a formal assessment of the structure, Galey said.

Saanich police responded just after 9 a.m. Wednesday and shut down the road at the crash site so B.C. Hydro crews could make repairs.

The crews arrived about 10 a.m., and the road was ­reopened to traffic about 11 a.m.

The circumstances of the incident are still under investigation, but drugs or alcohol do not appear to have been factors, police said.

Golden Valley Eggs is a B.C. subsidiary of L.H. Gray & Son, which calls itself the country’s largest egg processor. Gray & Son is headquartered in Strathroy, Ontario.

Galey said produce will continue to be sold at the farm.

“We are in the middle of our busy season, and we’re coming up with a plan,” he said. “We’re hoping to have a temporary market starting Thursday.”

In the meantime, customers are being diverted to the Galey farms stand at the intersection of Carey and Wilkinson roads. “The berries keep coming no matter what.”

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— with files from Michael John Lo

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