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A driver who struck a moose on the Alaska Highway has been found liable for a head-on crash because he failed to warn others about the carcass within nine minutes.

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Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Watchuk said Harris John Wheeler should have been concerned less about the damage to his truck and worried more about the danger to other motorists.

Wheeler was travelling north between Dawson Creek and Fort St. John about 7 p.m. on Feb. 21, 2011 when the moose bolted out of the dark and stuck his white 2003 Ford F350.

Then 71, the oilpatch worker maintained he kept driving for only a short distance before stopping to check for damage.

Wheeler got back into his vehicle and continued to drive north, he said, looking for a place to turn around so he could return to the collision site.

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Skeptical, Justice Watchuk said Wheeler didn’t need to turn around and instead should have taken steps to highlight the dead ungulate in the middle of the road.