Friends mourn husband and father of two killed in fiery B.C. highway crash
CTV
A 41-year-old husband and father has been identified as the driver killed in a fiery crash on the Trans Canada Highway last week.
Rick Neale was a husband and father of two, and a proud Teamster who worked on film and movie productions all over Metro Vancouver for the past eight years.
“The last show he did was Resident Alien season 3. He finished May 1, right before the strike,” said Neale’s friend Aaron McClean.
When Hollywood writers went on strike in May, shutting down production in Metro Vancouver, 41-year-old Neale was forced to find other work.
“He was a provider for his family, he wasn’t going to let his family suffer. He would do whatever it took, and he took the trucking job,” said Paul Smith, another friend of Neale’s.
On May 29, Neale worked his first shift as a long-haul trucker.
“He liked it and hated it at the same time, just because of how dangerous it was,” said Neale’s friend Ryan Bieber.
“That was actually on of our last conversations was me telling him to quit his job, so he could go home to his kids,” said McClean.