Lund is Director of the JIBC’s Pacific Traffic Education Centre, or
PTEC, initially a joint venture between the Institute and the Insurance
Corporation of B.C. in 1988, when the versatile Lund retired from the
RCMP to take this job. His official role is accident reconstructionist, a kind
of automotive coroner. He keeps a few wrecks on hand at the new Fraser
Mills driving instructional centre just to remind himself and his small staff
“why we're here,” says chief instructor Grant Kinney, another former police
officer.

Not that PTEC’s purpose is in danger of being forgotten. Not with
faded bouquets of flowers marking the locations of what Lund calls “an
epidemic” of fatalities that costs B.C. 500 mostly young lives each year.
Lund designed both of PTEC’s instructional road courses, the most recent
being at Boundary Bay airport for 30 years since 1978. He worked on the
layout of its successor, the PTEC track at Fraser Mills, on the Fraser River's
north shore at Coquitlam.

AGnK back vliree The new track is an elaborate traffic-simulation facility with ninety-
crcares ago at C's degree turns around large piles of earth dotted over the concrete. These
Omar sive on ine piles give the course blind intersections and not much warning of sudden
Jericna fans: Be stops ahead. The track’s edges are outlined with tall traffic pylons.

police reerults work 17 A teacher to the core, Lund invites his passenger to watch his hands.
aeudiieencery course i Never do they cross over. They meet each other, somewhere between six
driver educadion—the and twelve oclock on the steering wheel, crossing neither the top nor
one wil tis beck io the bottom of its rim. He seems to enjoy driving in rush hour. He never has to
cunjers 's ievay's Chie® slam on the brakes. He does not call any other driver a moron. He covers
Consiad.a Jim Chu of the brake pedal before the passenger notices, more than a block away, that
ihe Ver.couver Police the green light overlooking downtown New Westminster at Eighth Street
Department. was becoming stale.

“Why accelerate towards a light you know will be red by the time you
get there?” Lund asks nobody in particular. “And then you just have to hit
the brakes when you get there.” What’s the point of that? Good question:
Lund saves gas, oil, rubber and his guest’s nerves. He is enjoying doing
something important, something almost all of us do, and getting satisfac-
tion from doing it right.

PTEC is Lund’s brainchild, an accident prevention resource, which
saves lives particularly of such risk-laden professional drivers of emer-
gency vehicles. It also participates in research aimed at learning more about
vehicular mishaps. A German study Lund quoted suggests that with one
more second’s warning, eighty percent of all collisions could be avoided.
PTEC also offers driving courses for practically everything on rubber tires,
from motorcycles to semi-trailer highway rigs. These are intense, hands-on
courses from Lund’s personally formulated Driving With Finesse.

This is the course drivers are encouraged to take. Over one day,
an instructor uses an onboard computer to quantify the student driver’s